Goette v. Howe

Matson, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment which in effect awards plaintiffs specific performance of an oral contract with their father for the conveyance to them of his homestead — in consideration of personal services and care — and which further decrees the cancellation of certain quitclaim deeds whereby their father — in disregard of such oral contract — thereafter placed the property in joint tenancy with defendant, his second wife, who survived him.

Several years prior to 1927, the father, Frederick C. Howe, became the owner in fee of a house and lot in the city of St. Paul which he occupied…