Paris v. Scott

This is a bill for specific performance of alleged agreement by Fred and Alice Paris with plaintiff to leave him their property by will and of contract to the same effect between them for his benefit. The evidence did not support the former and the court held the latter was not proved.

About 1890 Fred Paris, a Chicago broker, was divorced from his first wife. Defendant Nellie Scott was the only issue of the marriage. Nellie went west with her mother. Fred later married Alice. For some time Nellie visited her aunt in Chicago yearly' and, on such occasions, saw her father. She had no contact…