Ervin Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

This is an appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery County, dismissing exceptions to the adjudication. The issue presented is a very narrow one: “Does Paragraph 10 of the November 8, 1959 agreement between appellant, Marybeth G. Ervin, and decedent, Kenneth D. Ervin, represent an obligation of the estate to make annual payments, or does the obligation terminate at Kenneth Ervin’s death?”

On November 8, 1959, decedent and appellant, then his wife, executed an agreement which was supplemented by a second agreement dated November 18, 1959.…