Kirkpatrick v. Kirkpatrick

Taylor, Justice.

This appeal arises out of an action in equity for the specific performance of an oral contract alleged to have been entered into in November, 1949, between respondent, Joe Gladney Kirkpatrick, and his half great-aunt, Mrs. C. L. Gladney Roberts, who died intestate in Fairfield County. December 29, 1950.

After issue was joined, the Honorable Steve C. Griffith, Presiding Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, appointed the Honorable C. E. Saint-Amand, of Newberry, South Carolina, Special Referee in the matter, who after hearing the testimony reported in a most able, comprehensive…