McCarty v. Nelson

Christianson, Justice.

Appeals by defendants, consolidated for review by this court, from judgments for plaintiffs in three separate actions, which were consolidated for trial in the district court. Each of the cases involves an action for specific performance of an alleged oral contract to devise and bequeath real and personal property owned by Albie C. Sansbury, deceased, at the time of his death.

Albie C. Sansbury died intestate on April 28, 1948. At the time of his death he was 64 years of age and resided on a small farm near the Mississippi River at Eighty-first and Lyndale avenues north…