Bates v. Beckman

Carr,. J.

Plaintiff brought suit in equity, asking the specific performance of an alleged verbal agreement for the conveyance of an interest in land, and for further relief by way of an accounting. The bill of complaint alleged that plaintiff and his wife Eva Bates, now deceased, were the owners as tenants by the entireties of certain real estate in Lapeer county ; that in October, 1944, Mrs. Bates started suit for divorce; that on the 3d of January, 1945, while said suit was pending, a property settlement was entered into between the parties; and that, in accordance with the agreement,…