Powers v. Perry

Plaintiff seeks to establish the separate reciprocal wills of Ira Edward Perry and Clara May Perry, husband and wife, as mutual wills and asks for specific performance of the oral contract alleged to have been entered into by the parties at the time the wills were executed.

On January 28, 1941, the Perrys executed separate, but reciprocal, wills, which contained the following pertinent provisions :

“Second. I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved husband Ira Edward Perry, (wife Clara May Perry) all of my property, which I have or possess at the time of my death to be his (hers) absolute and…