Speck v. Anderson

WOLLMAN Chief Justice (on reassignment).

This is an action for specific performance of an option agreement to purchase certain real estate. The trial court granted appellee’s motion for summary judgment. 1 We reverse and remand.

Appellants, Donald and Joan Speck (Specks), operate a farming and ranching operation in Buffalo County, South Dakota. George Anderson (appellee) is the only son of Howard and Wilma Anderson. As a young man, appellee left home and moved to California.

As he grew older and his wife’s health began to deteriorate, Howard Anderson became less interested in actively farming…