In Re Estate of Knight

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE SCHWARTZ

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order of the Prohate Court, denying Carrie Stanfield’s claim for $16,273 against the estate of James E. Knight, deceased. Claimant is the wife of Gordon Stanfield, a stepson of the deceased. He is not a party to this proceeding and, so far as appears, has made no claim. Claimant bases her claim on a promise which she charges was made by the deceased to devise to her an apartment in a building owned by him, if she and her husband would give up the apartment in which they lived, dispose of their furniture…