Question $2$

$1$ Point

Questions $2$ and $3$ are based upon the following fact situation:

Gordon's adult daughter Sheila smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, and he had often tried to persuade her to stop, to no avail. Gordon then learned that Sheila and her husband had decided to try to have a baby, and when he thereafter saw Sheila at a party, he told her, $"$If you will give up smoking for the next ten months, at the end of that time I will give you $$10,000."$ Sheila agreed to stop smoking that very day. After leaving the party, Sheila had second thoughts. She remembered that her father had once promised her that if she would refrain from wearing makeup until she was $16,$ he would buy her a car, and had never done so$.$ Sheila called her mother, and asked her if she thought Gordon was serious. Nancy, her mother, said, $"$Go ahead and quit, honey$-$if your father won't pay, I'll see that you get the money he promised you from my own accounts?"

Sheila quit smoking that day and never smoked again. Ten months after Gordon's conversation with Sheila, Gordon and Nancy were killed in an auto accident.

Assume for the purposes of this question only that, one month later, Sheila sought payment of the $$10,000$ only from her father's estate. Will Sheila prevail as to this claim?

No$,$ because she will be unable to prove the terms of the oral contract between her and her father since he is dead.

No$,$ because her father's offer to pay was terminated upon his death.

Yes, because she has performed under a valid contract, and thus her father's estate must now perform.

Yes, because she changed her position for the worse in reliance on her father's promise, and thus his executor is estopped from denying that the contract existed.