In re the Estate of Healey

Wingate, S.

Although the question here presented is nominally one of testamentary construction, the real issue concerns the validity and effect of a certain agreement executed on April 4, 1916. Shorn of superfluities, the question is, in essence, propounded as to whether a competent adult person who voluntarily enters into an agreement, untainted by fraud or undue influence, and receives and enjoys the material consideration provided therein for upwards of a score of years, may, at the end of that time, repudiate the agreement and be relieved of the obligations therein assumed by him without a…