Blincoe v. Blincoe

This appeal involves the disposition of the estate of Mary Fitzhugh Blincoe, a Virginia resident who died in April 1965. Under her will dated February 20, 1945, which was probated by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, the decedent bequeathed $500 to her son Thomas Marbury Blmcoe and left the balance of her estate to her other son John Golden Blincoe. The trial court held, however, that the decedent in July 1958 had entered into an enforceable contract to make a will benefiting Thomas’s wife, Edna Blincoe, and Thomas’s and Edna’s children. The question presented is whether the…