Selle v. Selle

This is an action for specific performance of an alleged verbal contract between plaintiff and John Selle, deceased, by which contract, it is alleged that deceased agreed to give eighty acres of land in Clinton County, Missouri, to plaintiff, if plaintiff would take care of John Selle for the remainder of his (John Selle's) life. The chancellor granted the relief sought and defendants appealed.

It is alleged in plaintiff's petition that John Selle died intestate in Clinton County, Missouri, September 5, 1932; that he was never married; that he left surviving, no direct descendants; that his…