Bogan v. Wiley

Plaintiff sued for specific performance of an oral contract to leave by will a one-half interest in a business partnership. The defendants had judgment and plaintiff’s appeal rests on the ground that defendants are es-topped to raise the defense of the statute of frauds.

Since no attack is directed to a claim that the evidence is insufficient to support any particular finding of fact a brief statement of facts resting on the findings made by the trial court will suffice. Mrs. Martha Wiley and her son James operated as equal partners a furniture business located in San Francisco. In 1914…