Mead v. Lane

McCORMICK, Justice.

This appeal arises from an equitable action for specific performance of an alleged oral agreement not to revoke a joint will. Plaintiffs had an expectancy under a joint will of their parents which their mother revoked by making a new will subsequent to their father’s death. In their unverified petition they set out the joint will and allege the mother’s later will contravened an oral agreement between their parents. They ask the court to award them the inheritance they would have received under the joint will.

Defendant is executor and beneficiary under the mother’s later…