Benson v. Williams

On The Merits

(149 P.(2d) 549)

Before Bailey, Chief Justice, and Belt, Lusk, Brand and Hay, Associate Justices. Ira W. Carl, of Portland, for appellant. George N. Davis, of Hood River (Tennis J. Wyers, of Hood River, on the brief), for respondent. BAILEY, C. J.

This suit was instituted by the plaintiff, Glertrude Benson, for the specific performance of an alleged oral contract whereby the plaintiff’s mother, Elizabeth M. Buelow, now deceased, agreed to devise to the plaintiff certain real property belonging to the decedent in Hood River county and mentioned as the “home place”, and to build…