Court Opinion

ID: 9833610
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:52:35.399388+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:04.953364
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
We have in this case carefully reviewed our disposition thereof in the light of the motions for rehearing filed by appellants and appellees, and believe that the case has been correctly disposed of.
At the time of the dismissal of the original suit Mrs. Sarah Ann French was dead. This is perhaps unimportant. The parties so considered it, and we so consider it.
However, in the last analysis, Charles French and Kathleen French seek to specifically enforce the contract between Mr. and Mrs. William French to make mutual and reciprocal wills. William French’s will has been probated; that of his wife has not. The jury found Mrs. French made such a will and never revoked same. This finding, however, does not give the will of Mrs. William French, that is, the will she made at the time William French made his will, any effect in law. The finding is not binding on the Probate Court. The judgment, among other things, specifically enforced the alleged contract between William French and his wife. No representative of her estate was before the court other than, perhaps, some of her heirs.
Both motions for rehearing are overruled.