Sherling v. Continental Trust Co.

Mrs. Eliza Sherling and her children, as joint plaintiffs, brought their suit against Continental Trust Company as executor of the last will and testament of Dominick Burns, seeking specific performance of an agreement alleged to have been made with Mrs. Sherling by Burns, during the latter’s lifetime, to leave one half of all the property that he might leave at his death to Mrs. Sherling and her children. It was alleged in the petition that *675shortly prior to November 2, 1897, Mrs. Bridget Gray, having been previously married to three different husbands, to wit, Patrick Burns, H. Clay Holst,…