Brecker v. Brecker

Maxwell, Judge:

This is a chancery suit for the specific enforcement of a written contract. From an adverse decree, the plaintiff appeals.

The parties are wife and husband, respectively.

This is the contract:

“I, Mr. William Brecker, promise my wife, Mrs. Lily Brecker, to sign over improved real estate on her name. She shall have an equal share for her part.

“To this, we both, Mr. Brecker and Mrs. Brecker, agree with our own free will, and to this we sign our names this 28th day of March, 1933.

Charleston, W. Va.

William Brecker

Lily Brecker.”

On the factual issue involving defendant’s denial that he…