Parks v. Barrowman

Complaint for specific performance of a married woman’s parol agreement, made through the agency of her husband, for the conveyance of her real estate. The court-sustained a demurrer, for want of facts, to the complaint, and, upon the refusal of the plaintiffs to amend, gave judgment for the defendants.

Besides alleging the making of the agreement, and showing-that the parties to it were, at the time of making it, married women, the complaint shows the payment of the purchase-money in part, and readiness to pay the remainder, the delivery and taking possession under the contract, the making of…