Shipp v. Bell & Ross Enterprises, Inc.

CONLEY Byrd, Justice.

Appellees C. Quenton Bell and Wesley E. Ross brought this action for specific performance of an alleged oral and written agreement with appellant Marie L. Shipp to convey to them an undivided two-thirds interest in a forty acre tract of land, hereinafter referred to as the “Morrison tract”. Appellant pleaded the statute of frauds as a defense and also counterclaimed for a third of the profits realized by Bell and Ross in the purchase and sale of a 360 acre tract, hereinafter referred to as the “Williams tract”. The trial court found against appellant upon both the…