Estate of Cates

Opinion

HERNDON, J.

The major of these two consolidated appeals is taken from a judgment adverse to plaintiffs and favorable to respondent Sandra Cates in an action for quasi-specific performance brought to enforce a written agreement between the decedent, Samuel D. Cates, and his predeceased wife Juel, by the terms of which they promised each other that they would execute mutual and reciprocal wills which neither would revoke or change without the consent in writing of the other. The other appeal is taken from an order entered in the probate proceeding granting a family allowance to respondent…