· 4/29/1960
Cotton v. Estate of Roberts
Citations
- 337 S.W.2d 776
- 47 Tenn. App. 277
- 1960 Tenn. App. LEXIS 80
How courts have described this case
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- declaring that a decedent’s alleged assurances that she would take care of a claimant were insufficient to create a contractual relationship because the assurances were too “ambiguous, vague, and indefinite” to prove the existence of a contract.
- oral statement by decedent that she would see that plaintiff \was taken care of\ in her will held too ambiguous, vague, and indefinite to be enforceable
- oral statement by decedent that she would see that plaintiff “was taken care of” in her will held too ambiguous, vague, and indefinite to be enforceable
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Judges: Humphreys, Hickerson, Shriver
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