Hale v. Hale
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Franklin county, rendered October 8, 1891, in a cause wherein the appellant, Mary H. Hale, was complainant, and the appellees, John S. Hale, and others, were defendants. .By the decree the demurrer to ber bill was sustained and her suit dismissed, and she appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion, of the court.
The appellant, Mary D. Hale, filed her bill for the specific performance of an alleged parol contract. The bill states that the plaintiff and her sister, Janie Hale, agreed, in 1885, to make mutual wills, so that the survivor would get the.whole estate, real and personal, of the one who should die first; and that each thereupon made a will in the other’s favor, in conformity with the agreement; that in October, 1888, the said Janie intermarried with Dr. Carter Berkeley, and soon after-wards died without.issue born alive; that some time prior to…
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