Ehmke v. Hill

Matson, Justice.

Appeal by defendants other than Margrate and John Ehmke from an order denying defendants’ motion for a new trial in an action for specific performance of an oral contract to convey land.

Decedent, Theodore W. F. Ehmke, plaintiff’s uncle, died intestate on February 6, 1950, as the record owner of the 120-acre farm involved herein. Defendant Howard Hill is the administrator of his estate. The other defendants are decedent’s only heirs at law. Plaintiff — born in 1910 — is the illegitimate son of Theodore’s sister Johanna, who predeceased him.

Decedent never married and was…