Tigglebeck v. Russell

This is a suit for relief in the nature of specific enforcement of an oral contract to devise and bequeath property in consideration of the performance of personal services by the promisee for the promisor. It seeks to have certain real and personal properties and moneys, comprising the estate of Imogen Elinore Bus- sell, deceased, impressed with a trust in the hands of the defendants in favor of plaintiff, Marie Tiggelbeek. The defendant Erma D. Bussell is the administratrix of the estate of said decedent, and the other defendants are decedent’s heirs at law.

For brevity, we adopt the…