Osborne v. Osborne
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from, Brown District Court. ACTION brought by George A. Osborne against John E. Osborne and others, to enforce the specific performance of a parol contract for the conveyance of land. Trial at the September Term, 1883, and judgment for defendants. Plaintiff brings the case here. The opinion states the material facts.
1Opinion of the Court
*258The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hortok, C. J.:
The plaintiff filed his petition seeking the specific performance of a verbal contract for the conveyance of one hundred and sixty acres of land. It alleged, among other things, that in November, 1877, Mrs. Fuller, the mother of plaintiff, being the owner of the land in dispute, gave it to him upon condition that he would move upon and live on the land; that she put him into the possession thereof in the spring of 1878; that at the time, the land was worth about $1,200; that in pursuance of such gift, he took possession of the land, and…
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