Wright v. Patrick

Littlejohn, Justice:

This is an action in equity for the specific performance of an oral contract to make a will alleged to have been entered into by the plaintiff-appellant, Margaret P. Wright, with her grandmother, Mrs. Margaret A. Patrick, who died intestate on October 8, 1972. The defendant-respondent, W. M. Patrick is the plaintiff’s father and the son and sole heir at law of Mrs. Patrick.

Pursuant to the provisions of South Carolina Code § 10-1057 (1962), and with the consent of counsel for both sides, certain issues were submitted to a jury, and a special verdict on the basic factual…