Barksdale v. Carr

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

The Chancery Court held that the appellees had éstablished, by the required quantum of evidence, a contract of September 26, 1945, between R. A. Carr and his wife, Sarah Ellen Carr, that they would make irrevocable reciprocal wills, and appellants challenge that finding and decree insofar as concerns the matter of irrevocability.

In 1925 R. A. Carr, a widower with three children, married Mrs. Sarah Ellen Barksdale, a widow with three children. There were no children born to the 1925 marriage, but it was a happy and successful one, and each parent treated the…