Ernest v. Pezoldt

(Pro Tempore)

This is an appeal by defendants from a decree of the circuit court of Multnomah county rendered in a suit wherein plaintiff Marie Ernest, joined by her husband Paul Ernest, claimed that her deceased brother, Walter Eudolph, prior to his death, entered into an agreement with plaintiffs, under which plaintiffs and the decedent agreed to make and execute mutual reciprocal wills whereby the survivor would become the residual legatee of all the property of the deceased parties and that her said brother violated the agreement by willing one-half his property to a woman named Eose Lena…