Claim of Sherman v. Estate of Sherman

Comstock, S.

That claimant has established an agreement on the part of testatrix to devise her farm to him and his brother Calvin, in consideration of their making improvements thereon and paying her debt to Lydia Sherman, there can be no doubt. To be sure there is no direct testimony as to'such agreement, but several witnesses swear that they each, at different times, heal’d testatrix sa.y that she had made such an arrangement with them, who are not only uncontradicted, but Calvin, himself, who is one of the executors and sole devisee, although on the stand as a witness and examined at length…