Hagood v. Spinks

This is a bill for the specific performance of a contract to convey a vacant lot used as a garden. It was owned by an old lady shown to have been between 75 and 85 years of age. She died before the testimony was taken, and her devisees were made parties.

Appellant claimed a verbal contract of purchase, and claims that she put him in possession, and he paid $7 of the purchase price of $560, in that at her request he paid the abstractor for bringing the abstract down to date. Appellees claimed that he had not been put in possession, and that they had no personal knowledge of the contract, and…