Boam v. Greenman

This is a suit instituted to compel the specific performance of an oral agreement alleged to have been made by complainants with Jacob D. Greenman, since deceased. The defendants are, respectively, a son, a daughter, and the administrator of the estate of said Jacob D. Greenman, deceased. The oral agreement, as stated in the bill of complaint, was as follows: That the said Jacob D. Greenman:

“Promised to complainants that, if they would return to his said farm and live there while he lived, allowing him to have one-half of the proceeds of the farm, by doing such work as his health might permit…