Holland v. Beames

TAYLOR, Justice.

The deceased, John G. Payne, 84, a widower, was the owner of a forty acre farm in Jerome County. On the 16th of October, 1947, the defendant, Kue H. Beames, 33, a school teacher, hearing that Payne wanted to sell his farm, went to his residence in Eden and talked to him about buying the farm. Defendant says Payne informed him he wanted cash and he informed Payne that he was unable to pay cash, but was selling reclaimed lumber from a building he had purchased from the Government, and that he would pay for the farm as soon as he was able to sell enough of the lumber to raise the…