Shovers v. Warrick

The object of the original and supplemental bills filed in this case by appellant is to enforce the specific performance of an alleged verbal agreement to convey 40 acres of land. After answers and replications were filed and hearing was had upon testimony taken, the circuit court dismissed the bills for want of equity, and the present appeal is prosecuted from such decree of dismissal.

The original bill, which was filed on December 18,1889, alleges that, on April 1, 1870, George Warrick, being the owner of the 40 acres, made an agreement with his son, Luther B. Warrick, to sell and convey to…