In Re Estate of Brown

This appeal is from a decree wherein the bench denied a petition filed in the probate proceedings for specific performance and general relief against the executors based upon an agreement by decedent to sell his shares in petitioner companies in event of his death. For the reasons set forth herein, we are of the opinion that the court below was in error and that the petition should have been granted so as to effectuate the declared intention of the parties to the agreement.

In 1957 the decedent was the sole owner of two Illinois corporations, Harbro, Inc. and Carey Grain Corporation, having…