Mellinger's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

To compel specific performance by respondent of an agreement, allegedly providing for the conveyance to his wife, petitioners’ decedent, of certain real estate, the present action was instituted in the Orphans’ Court, under the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1917, P. L. 363, section 9(i), and June 7,1917, P. L. 447, section 18(a).

On or about May 15, 1915, Lillian I. Mellinger, with her own funds, purchased a small tract of land in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, but the deed therefor was executed in the name of herself and that of her husband, Martin H.…