Edwards v. Sentell

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree denying the relief sought in a bill for specific performance of a purported oral agreement that complainant-appellant would be a legatee in the will of George Washington Sentell. When the will was probated, it contained no-provision for her in it, and she filed her bill against Johnny Wesley Sentell, as executor of the estate of the decedent.

Appellant, Mrs. Eva Edwards, alleged in her original bill that George Washington Sentell, hereinafter called the decedent, during the year 1952, told her if she would give-up her job with an insurance company…