Ex Parte Berni

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the contract becomes irrevocable upon the death of one party and “the will of the first party is the will of both parties”
• “[U]nlike joint wills which patently evidence a contractual intent, the wills in this case are mutual and reciprocal … [and] [t]here is simply no proof … [that] the parties intended their wills to be mutual contracts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).