Ford v. Kimble

Citations

• 41 Wash. 573
• 84 P. 414
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 1011

Syllabus

<p>Contracts — Personal Service — Maintenance—Breach—Restoring Consideration. An. obligation of a son to support his parents in consideration of a conveyance of land is personal and cannot be assigned without consent of the parents, and upon failure of the son to perform the contract, the right of the parents to he restored to their property immediately vests.</p> <p>Same — Rights of Heirs. Where premises were conveyed to a son, in consideration of which he agreed to support his parents during their lives, upon the death of the son without performance of the contract the equitable title to the property revests in the parents, and the heirs of the son acquire no interest therein.</p> <p>Same — Voluntary Cancellation — Execution of New Agreement. Where a son agreed to support his parents in consideration of the conveyance of premises, the parties may thereafter agree to cancel the contract and enter into another agreement whereby the son was to support his mother, and a daughter was to support her father, and each was allotted a certain portion of the premises in consideration thereof, and the heirs of the son can raise no objection thereto.</p>