Standard v. Standard

This is a bill in chancery filed by the appellants, by their next friend, against the appellee, in the circuit court of Union county, to enforce the specific performance of an alleged parol contract or promise for the conveyance of land from a father to a son in case the son would live upon the land and improve the same.

The allegations of the bill are, that William J. Standard, the father of Warren Standard and the grandfather of the appellants, was the owner of two hundred acres of land in Union county, upon which he and his wife, Elizabeth J. Standard, resided as their home; that their son,…