Snyder v. Shuttleworth
Ohio Court of Appeals
Error: Court of Appeals for Hocking county. John W. Dennis filed his petition in the court of common pleas, stating that on the 27th day of January, 1881, he married Margaret A. Hartley, who died the 17th of October, 1906, seized of 73.6 acres, more or less, of land in Hocking county, Ohio. The prayer was for dower.
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Error: Court of Appeals for Hocking county. John W. Dennis filed his petition in the court of common pleas, stating that on the 27th day of January, 1881, he married Margaret A. Hartley, who died the 17th of October, 1906, seized of 73.6 acres, more or less, of land in Hocking county, Ohio. The prayer was for dower. By leave of court Della Snyder filed an answer and cross-petition, and later an amended cross-petition which, omitting the formal parts, reads as follows: “On or about the 15th day of June, A. D. 1874, one James Lanning, the father of this answering defendant, duly entered into a…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
There is presented for determination the question whether a written contract, entered into by the parent of an infant child with strangers, by the terms of which the latter agreed to adopt *141such child, perform the duties and obligations of a parent to such child, and further agreed that such child should inherit from each all property which she would inherit if she were their own child, will be specifically enforced when fully performed on the part of such child.
This question is discussed, but left undecided, in Shahan, Exr., et al. v. Swan, 48 Ohio St., 25, 31, 32. The question was not…
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