Ledingham v. Bayless

Over the attack of the other two children, who are appellants here, the chancellor held valid and effective, as a contract to devise, a written agreement between George E. S. Bayless, Jr., the appellee (usually called “Buddy”), and his parents, that if he would work the farm owned and lived on by the parents, at the death of the survivor he would “be considered the legal owner of one-half undivided interest in the Fairfield Farm.”

Mr. and Mrs. George E. S. Bayless, the parents, acquired a two hundred acre farm in Howard County in 1926 as tenants by the entirety. Mr. Bayless farmed the place…