Myers v. Myers

HERRMANN, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal from the Court of Chancery’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants in an action for specific performance of a provision of a separation agreement entered into in 1963 between Robert C. Myers and his wife Anne.

I

Paragraph 11 of the agreement, the provision in controversy, stated:

“11. The husband agrees to maintain the life insurance presently outstanding in his name and he further agrees to name the wife as beneficiary of fifty per cent (50%) of the amount of life insurance outstanding on October 31,1963, irrevocably.”

The agreement also…