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· 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

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • 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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