Snater v. Walters

Defendants appeal from a decree ordering specific performance of an oral limestone and gravel lease to plaintiff for a term of twenty years with right of plaintiff to renew for an additional twenty years,

Plaintiff is the president of the Missouri Valley Limestone Company and obtains leases for it. He is a man of wide experience in the limestone business.

Will Walters will be referred to as sole defendant. The other defendant, his wife, Kathryn, took no part in the negotiations and has no interest in the real estate in question other than her distributive share. Defendant, 73 years old at the…