Viau

This is an appeal by the defendant, as administrator of the estate of Mary H. Yiau, deceased, from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, who was the son of said deceased.

The complaint alleges that on January 2, 1903, Mary Yiau, now deceased, acquired title to lots 14 and 15, according to the plat of Orangedale, county of Fresno, California, and at said time said property was wholly unimproved except nine acres planted to young vines; that Mary Yiau was the mother of plaintiff, Will Yiau, and at the time she acquired title to said property and' on other occasions thereafter she promised that if the plaintiff would remain with her and assist in the planting and improvement of said property and other property then owned by said Mary Yiau, that she would give said plaintiff the north twenty acres of lots 14 and 15; that plaintiff went on said property in January, 1903, and remained there continuously, supervising and managing and planting and improving said property and working on said land until April, 1918; that, frequently, during said time he had opportunities to engage in other business undertakings, but was dissuaded from so doing by his mother’s promise that when the…