Adams v. Adams

This is an appeal from a decree denying a prayer for specific performance of an alleged oral promise to devise a moiety in a tobacco farm.

The farm, formerly owned by Miss Kate Nunnelee (Miss Kate), passed under her will to C. F. Adams (C.F.) and, under his will, to his widow, Ruby Reynolds Adams. C. F. Adams, Jr., and Franklin R. Adams, C.F.’s sons, qualified as executors of their father’s estate. Edsel Adams, C.F.’s first cousin, and his wife Clara (the complainants) filed a bill of complaint against C.F.’s widow and the executors of his estate. In support of their prayer for specific…