Pullen v. Dale

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

Judgment was entered in the District Court, First Division, of Alaska in favor of Olaf Dale, plaintiff, against Royal R. and Harriet S. Pullen, defendants. The defendants appeal from this judgment. We shall refer to the parties by their proper names..

It is not disputed that Harriet S. Pullen was running an hotel in and upon property owned by her son, Royal R. Pullen, during all of the times herein referred to, and that an oral contract was entered into by and between her and Olaf Dale in May, 1933. A written memorandum of this contract was made in March, 1935, and is…