Meyer v. Meyer

Ronin, District Judge.

This is an action in equity wherein plaintiffs seek specific performance of an alleged oral contract for the conveyance of the 160-acre home farm of the parties. This is a family controversy arising immediately after the accidental death of the only son of the Meyer family on January 15, 1963.

The facts essential to an understanding and disposition of the issues of this case are these: The defendants Bernard D. Meyer and Anna Meyer are husband and wife and the parents of five children, four of whom were daughters and constitute the remaining four defendants herein. All…