Lally v. Cronen

In this case the learned trial justice has found the facts in favor of plaintiff. He finds that in 1901 the plaintiff, the defendant Cronen, her half-sister, and Catharine M. Lally, now deceased, the mother of the defendant and the stepmother of the plaintiff, entered into an agreement, based upon due consideration, to execute mutual wills by which the property of each of the parties should pass to the survivors in case of the death of any one of the contracting parties, and that none of them would revoke such mutual will without notice to the others. The three separate wills were duly…