Reece v. Van Gilder

TIPTON, Presiding Judge.

This appeal was transferred to this court by the Kansas City Court of Appeals on the ground that title to real estate is involved. That court’s opinion transferring it to this court is reported at 264 S.W.2d 893. That opinion accurately states the facts of this case and we will adopt the same for this opinion, without quotation marks.

Plaintiffs, David G. and Elsie H. Reece, husband and wife, sued defendant Estella A. Van Gilder. They alleged the making of a verbal contract with defendant whereby plaintiffs agreed to expend large sums of money on defendant’s 320 acre…