Hagan v. Laragione

DREW, Acting Chief Justice.

The petition for writ of certiorari in this proceeding controverts a decision of the District Court, Second District, reversing a final decree for defendant, the petitioner Hagan, in an action against him for specific performance of an alleged oral contract for reciprocal wills.1

*290The material facts are set out at length in the opinion of the appellate court.2 In brief, the plaintiff Laragiones, residents of Italy, contended that their brother James Mele and his wife Alice, both deceased, entered into an oral contract during their joint lives to make wills in which…