Ex Parte Hineline

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice Brease.

By consent of counsel, these three appeals are consolidated and heard together, since, in a general way, the causes relate to the same subject-matter.

Dr. W. R. Galloway and his wife, Mrs. Desdemona Galloway, both deceased, aged people, without children, lived for many years in Darlington, and these causes grow out of their respective wills and an alleged contract between the two to make wills.

On July 12, 1926, Dr. and Mrs. Galloway made separate wills, whereby each gave to the other a life estate in all of the testator’s…