Shackleford v. Edwards

COIL, Commissioner.

Mary and Helen Shackleford have appealed from a judgment denying them relief in the nature of specific performance of an alleged contract between the Crawfords (husband and wife) to make irrevocable, mutual and reciprocal wills. We shall re fer to the parties as they were designated in the trial court.

Plaintiffs were the nieces of George K. Crawford, deceased. Frances H. Crawford, deceased, was George’s wife and defendant, Thomas H. Edwards, was Frances’s son by a former marriage. The Crawfords married when George was in his 50’s. He had a strong dislike for his stepson. .…