Holmes v. Ackley

This is a suit in chancery filed in the circuit court of Pulaski County by Naomi Holmes, appellee, against the heirs of Mae Bourgois, deceased, for the specific performance of an alleged oral contract between the deceased and herself by which the former agreed to devise to appellee 10 acres of land in said county. The complaint, as finally amended, alleged that on December 25, 1944, Mae Bourgois, then of the age of 56 years, in failing health, and being without assistance, society or companionship agreed with and promised appellee, who was then unmarried and 33 years of age, that if she would…