Christin

This is an appeal from a judgment for defendants on demurrer to a complaint for specific performance of a contract to leave property by will, which contract is alleged to have been made in 1906 between plaintiff, Estelle P. Christin, then Estelle Porter, and one Estelle Caswell, whose executor and legatees are the defendants in the case.

The facts of the case are as follows: When the contract was made, Estelle Porter, then eighteen years old, was living with her family in San Fernando, California; her family relations were affectionate, and her social circle pleasant and agreeable; she had finished her high school course and was about to enter Stanford University; Mrs. Caswell invited her to spend six months with her in Paris, and promised plaintiff and her mother that in the event plaintiff accepted the offer, she, Mrs. Caswell, would leave to her by will “all of her jewelry, personal effects, and a large part of her personal property,”or “all of her jewelry and personal effects.” (The promise is stated in the complaint in both ways.) Plaintiff accepted the offer, and spent “large sums,” not stated in the complaint, in traveling to and from France and on trips with Mrs. Caswell…