Wright v. Wright

The bill in this cause was filed to compel the conveyance by defendant to complainant of a tract of eighty acres in Clinton county, in specific performance of an alleged agreement.

The agreement on which relief is sought is averred to have been made in the spring of 1866, whereby it is claimed that defendant, who is complainant’s father, agreed, “inconsideration of the work already performed by your orator for the said defendant, and the money already paid to him *381by your orator, aud in consideration of the love and affection for your orator, he being the son of the said Eli Wright, defendant,…