In re the Accounting of Nichols

Fbabtkehthaleb, S.

Objections addressed to the rejection of her demand for payment of the sum of $25,000 have been filed by the former wife of deceased in this proceeding for the settlement of the account of the executors. The objectant bases her claim upon the promise of her husband to bequeath that amount to her pursuant to an agreement of settlement of property rights entered into between the parties at a time when an action he had brought against her for a divorce was pending in a Florida court.

The facts have been stipulated. ■ In 1940, the decedent and the claimant, then residing in New…