Matter of Estate of Chapman

How courts have described this case

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• concluding the spouse who died first “got what he wanted,” i.e., “the contractual assurance that, if he should die first, his property would go according to his wishes”
• when the probate code applies, “the evidence to establish a mutual will must be found in the instrument itself’
• husband got contractual assurance that if he died first, his property would be distributed according to his wishes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).