Resor v. Schaefer

This is an action to compel specific performance of an oral contract of a decedent. The administrator of the decedent’s estate answered by general denial and also cross-complained for affirmative recovery of rent due the estate. Trial by the court without a jury resulted in findings and conclusions, on the basis of which the court decreed specific performance and, in effect, denied recovery on the cross-complaint. The administrator has appealed.

William P. Draper and Hannah M. Draper, an elderly couple, lived in Vancouver, Washington, in a home owned by them and valued at about two thousand…