Scott v. King

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action in the district court of Bourbon county wherein the plaintiff, J. P. Scott, sought to enforce an oral contract between him and Thomas Chapman and Lucy Chapman, his wife, by which Chapman and wife agreed that Scott should have a life estate in Chapman’s farm in consideration of Scott and his family moving on the farm and caring for Mr. and Mrs. Chapman in their old age.

Thomas • Chapman and his wife, Lucy Chapman, lived for many years on a Bourbon county farm. It appears that the wife of the plaintiff was a frequenter of the…