Jack Lamberg, Individually and as Under the Will of Ruth N. Wood, Also Known as Ruth I. Wood v. Robert J. Callahan, as Under the Will of Ernest Wood

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

In this diversity suit by the executor and beneficiaries of the estate of a wife, Ruth N. Wood (“Ruth”), against the executor and beneficiaries of the estate of her husband, Ernest Wood (“Ernest”), for breach of a contract to make mutual, reciprocal, irrevocable wills, plaintiffs appeal from a judgment in favor of defendants. For the reasons stated below we affirm.

The essential facts are undisputed. 1 On August 26, 1959, Ruth N. Wood, a resident of Norwalk, Conn., executed a will at the office of an attorney, Charles Belous, in Queens County, New York, which was…