Atkinson v. Jackson

Atkinson filed his complaint, in the form of a petition to enforce the specific performance of a *32parol agreement 'for the conveyance of forty acres of land: Demurrer to the petition sustained. Atkinson excepted, and now presents his appeal.

The petition alleges that James Atkinson, father of the petitioner, died intestate, in June, 1853, seized in fee of certain lands therein described, and leaving the petitioner and the defendants his heirs, &c.; that in 1836, when the petitioner was between fourteen and fifteen years old, his father made a verbal contract with the plaintiff, that, if he…