Atwood v. Burt

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• no mutual wills where wills made individual dispositions instead of joint dispositions and no language stating that beneficiaries would take when surviving spouse died
• no mutual wills where wills made individual dispositions instead of joint dispositions and no language stating that beneficiaries would take when surviving spouse died
• “ ‘A contract to make a will must, in order to be enforceable, be clearly proved and be certain and unambiguous in all its terms.’ ” (quoting 4 Page on Wills § 1711 (Lifetime ed.))
• Justice Mabry quoted with approval from 4 Page on Wills, § 1711, the rule that “a contract to make a will must, in order to be enforceable, ‘be clearly proved and be certain and unambiguous in all its terms’ ”

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