Denevan v. Belter

Plaintiffs had decree for specific performance of an oral agreement to convey. Defendants appealing contend:

“(1) That the making of any such contract as that alleged was not proved with the degree of certainty required in such cases.

“(2) That the acts of performance alleged and relied upon to take the case out of the statute of frauds do not with sufficient certainty and exclusiveness point to the alleged contract.”

Frederica Haise lived alone on a 40-acre farm in Montcalm county. She was “seventy some” years old. Her husband had been dead eight years. She had no children. She had a brother…