Rash v. Peoples Deposit Bank & Trust Co.

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant sought specific performance of a lost contract claimed to have been executed by her and one Clarence Jones Wright in May, 1926, by the terms of which she claims he agreed, in consideration of services to be rendered by her until his death, to give her by will or otherwise his entire estate. The District Judge concluded that under the tests applicable generally, and in Kentucky, the appellant had failed to establish by evidence of the clearest, most conclusive, and satisfactory nature, the existence, content, or loss of the contract upon which she relied and…