Looper v. WHITAKER

Stukes, Chief Justice.

This is an action to establish a contract to make a will. The plaintiff, now respondent and above eighty years of age, in 1933 married as his second.wife a maiden lady who was more than thirty years his junior. They had no children, but he has sons and daughters by his former marriage. She was working when she was married and continued at her employment until her death in 1955, at which time she was earning a salary of $260.00 per month. She remained with the same employer for over thirty years— from some time before her marriage until her death.

At the time of their…