Porporato v. Devincenzi

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of dismissal entered when the court sustained a demurrer to her complaint for quasi-speeifie performance of an alleged oral agreement to devise real property. The following narrative takes at face value the material allegations of the amended complaint.

Appellant was the daughter-in-law of John Porporato, decedent; respondent was the residuary beneficiary of decedent’s will and devisee of real property located on Marina Boulevard at Webster Street in San Francisco.

Appellant married decedent’s son in. 1935. The couple moved to San Francisco from Omaha and lived…