Tetlow's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

This is an action for the specific performance of a parol contract for the conveyance of real estate, where the person making such parol agreement died seised of such real estate and no sufficient provision for the performance of the contract had been made by the decedent, all of which proceedings are provided for in the Fiduciary’s Act of June 7, 1917, P. L. 447, section 18 [e], * (20 PS, 615).

The decedent, Eliza Jarman Tetlow, died June 24, 1931. In 1924 and previous thereto she had been a patient in Battle Creek Sanitarium, in Michigan. The petitioner was then a…