Pfeifer v. Raper

Frank Holt, Justice.

This appeal results from the chancellor’s dismissal of appellant’s action for specific performance of an alleged oral contract for the sale of lands on which was situated a small store building. For reversal of the decree, appellant contends that the chancellor erred in finding that appellant did not make substantial improvements on the property in reliance upon the oral contract and, further, in finding that the appellant had failed to prove the contract specific and definite enough to entitle her to specific performance.

To remove an oral contract from the statute of…