Bartman v. Bartman

Appellant, Ralph D. Bartman, filed a complaint in the circuit court of Mason County seeking specific performance of an alleged contract to convey real estate, or the alternative relief that a certain mortgage and annuity contract, which he had executed and delivered to his father, be delivered up and cancelled. Named as defendants were Koert Bartman, Sr., and Sunkea Bartman, appellant’s father and mother, and Kate Diess and Rudolph Diess, his sister and brother-in-law. The parents died while the litigation was in progress and their heirs and representatives have been substituted as…