Court Opinion

ID: 9868273
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 18:27:18.342237+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:48.893365
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Mr. Justice Cothran :
I concur in the opinion of the Chief Justice affirming the decree of the Circuit Judge upon the following grounds:
The evidence, with all the surrounding circumstances, demonstrating the propriety, reasonableness and probability of the alleged agreement, satisfies me that the Circuit Judge was right in finding that the will was executed upon the promise of the devisee to devise the property to the boys who had been raised by Mrs. Truett and were the obje.cts of her solicitude and affection. In 1 Tiffany, Real Property, § 94, it is said:
“If one procures a devise by promising the testator to give the beneficial interests in the whole or a part of the property to a third person, he will be regarded as holding in trust for such person”- — citing Dowd v. Tucker, 41 Conn., 197. Ollife v. Wells, 130 Mass., 221. Gilpatrick v. Glidden, 81 Me., 137; 16 Atl., 464; 2 L. R. A. 662; 10 Am. St. Rep., 245. Ragsdale v. Ragsdale, 68 Miss., 92; 8 South., 315 ; 11 L. R. A., 316; 24 Am. St. Rep., 256. O’Hara v. Dudley, 95 N. Y., 403; 47 Am. Rep., 53. Hoge v. Hoge, 1 Watts (Pa.), 163; 26 Am. Dec., 52.
To which may be added: Whitehouse v. Bolster, 95 M. E., 458; 50 Atl., 240. Smillin v. Wharton, 73 Nef., 667; 103 N. W., 288; 106 N. W., 577; 112 N. W., 622; 113 N. W., 267. Fairchild v. Edson, 154 N. Y., 199; 48 N. E., 541; 61 Am. St. Rep., 609. People v. Schafer, 266 Ill., 334; 107 N. E., 617. Gemmel v. Pletcher, 76 Kan., 577; 92 Pac. 713 ; 93 Pac; 339. Taylor v. Fox 162 Ky., 804; 173 S. W., 154. Benbrook v. Yancy, 96 Miss., 536; 51 South., 461. Mead v. Robertson, 131 Mo. App., 185; 110 S. W., 1095. Heinisch *132v. Pennington, 73 N. J., Eq., 456; 68 Atl., 233. Powell v. Yearance, 73 N. J. Eq., 117; 67 Atl., 892. Van Houten v. Stevenson, 74 N. J. Eq., 1; 77 Atl., 612. Tyler v. Stitt, 132 Wis., 656; 112 N. W., 1091; 12 L. R. A. (N. S.), 1087; 122 Am. St. Rep., 1012. Hollis v. Hollis, 254 Pa., 90; 98, Atl., 789. Barron v. Stuart, 136 Ark., 481; 207 S. W., 22. Brazil v. Silva, 181 Cal., 490; 185 Pac. 174.