Shaw v. Hamilton

This is an action in equity to secure specific performance of an alleged oral contract to make a will.

The petition alleged that Edgar F. Shaw and Alice Rozier Shaw, his wife, "entered into a contract by which each of them agreed that such property as either of them should receive by will from the other, and which should not be consumed by the one who should receive it, would be given by the will of the survivor to the family of the one from whom such property should be received;" that in reliance upon said contract Mr. Shaw devised and bequeathed his property to Mrs. Shaw, who accepted and…