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ROBERTSON v. HACKENSACK TRUST CO.

1 N.J. 304 (1949)

63 A.2d 515

MARGARET W. ROBERTSON, COMPLAINANT-APPELLANT, v. THE HACKENSACK TRUST CO., INDIVIDUALLY AND AS EXECUTOR, ET AL., DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided January 17, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James A. Major argued the cause for complainant-appellant (Mr. Joseph H. Gaudielle, attorney).

Mr. William H. Wurts argued the cause for defendants-respondents (Messrs. Wurts & Plympton, attorneys).

The opinion of the court was delivered by CASE, J.

The complainant seeks to enforce an alleged oral contract made with her father, the defendants' testator, that "she would receive from her father, after his death everything that he owned" in consideration of her agreement to give up her home in Nyack, N.Y., live with him and his wife and take care of them for the rest of their lives.

Following the complainant's divorce from her first husband in 1928, her...

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