Woods v. Security-First National Bank

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment in an action in which he sought to obtain property which stood in his deceased wife’s, Eugenie’s, name at the time of her death.

From the findings of the court it appears that defendant bank is the executor of Eugenie’s will, she having died on May 28, 1949, at the age of 91. Plaintiff and decedent were married on January 14, 1949. (The other defendants are beneficiaries under the will.) At the time of the marriage decedent owned considerable real and personal property and she “orally agreed with him [plaintiff] that if they were married, all of her property…