Adams Marine Service, Inc. v. Fishel

This is an action for specific performance of an oral contract to convey land. The defendants are Ethel G. Fishel, widow of Charles R. Fishel, deceased, and the executors of his estate. The defendants deny the making of any contract and by cross-complaint seek to quiet the widow’s title to the land (she having acquired, during the course of the probate proceedings, the interest of the only other heir) and, on her behalf, to recover damages for trespass on the land in question and damages to other property.

In his lifetime, Dr. Charles R. Fishel and his wife owned lots 2 and 3, block 5, Day…