PERKINS v. CORKEY


147 Conn. 248 (1960)

HELEN M. PERKINS v. RICHARD F. CORKEY, EXECUTOR (ESTATE OF ALICE M. CHAPMAN)

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided March 15, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Watrous, with whom was William P. Simon, for the appellant (defendant).

William J. Willetts, with whom were William H. Shields and, on the brief, Griswold Morgan, for the appellee (plaintiff).

BALDWIN, C. J., KING, MURPHY, MELLITZ and SHEA, JS.


KING, J.

The plaintiff, after proper presentation of a claim to the defendant as executor of the will of Alice M. Chapman, brought this action to recover the reasonable value of miscellaneous services rendered to the decedent during the last ten years of her life at her request and upon her promise to pay "the reasonable value thereof by will." In the will, which had been executed only about three months before the testatrix' death, the plaintiff was bequeathed a...

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