Clark v. Clark

This is a bill filed by appellee in the circuit court of McDonough county for the specific performance of an alleged parol contract for the sale of land. The circuit court decreed the relief asked for, and the case is brought before us by appeal from that decree.

John P. Clark, the father of appellee and eleven other children, owned in his lifetime four hundred acres of land, including eighty acres bought by him in 1878. The eighty acres were situated in Bethel township in said county and known as the Bethel farm. John P. Clark died testate on October 18, 1883. He made a will, dated August 17,…