What happens when you promise trust money and don't pay: Hamer v. Sidway case

I was reading an interesting case online the other day called Hamer v. Sidway. In this gem of a case, an uncle promised 5,000$ dollars to a nephew in exchange for righteous living by the nephew until he was 21. Ultimately, even though the nephew kept his promise, the uncle died without paying the sum of money, and the trustee of the uncle's estate refused to pay.

So, what happened in the case? Well, the link that I provided wouldn't tell me, so I had to search the case on Google. It looks like the nephew (Hamer) won the case.

Good for him. Giving up smoking is the hardest thing to do. I hope he wins a dollar.

Note: I am not a lawyer. I have moral values, and I don't like screwing people for the sake of money, nor do I like quibbling over things that have an obvious interpretation.

Food Court Proposal Gone Bad

Have you ever planned the perfect proposal to the woman of your dreams in a very public place? Were you turned down by said woman and publicly humiliated in the process? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, then you might have a small indication of what the guy in the next video is feeling.



So, yeah, poor bastard. I really do feel sorry for him. Worse yet, he gained a kind of notoriety that meant that he had to keep reliving his humiliation over and over again as various people brought up the incident to him again. Here are a few examples:

Food court guy and some dumb girls asking him about it:



Food Court guy embarrassed at a concert:



So ... yep. Poor guy.

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