Young v. Young

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

The appellee, Mrs. Dema Young, filed this suit against the appellant, Baymond A. Young,1 to enjoin him from selling — during her lifetime — the home in which she was living, and also to require him to pay her one-third of the amount for which he had sold the business, known as Young’s Laundry and Cleaners, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Mrs. Young claimed that in 1945 Mr. Young made an oral contract with her, which she was seeking to enforce in this suit. Mr. Young denied any such contract, and pleaded the statute of frauds (Ark. Stat. Ann. § 38-101 [Bepl. 1962]).…