Kelley v. Dodge

Plaintiffs, D. L. Kelley and Hazel Kelley, filed a bill of complaint for specific performance of an oral contract claimed to have been made by A. Wilder Gleason and Marion Gleason, to devise certain real estate located at Hess lake, Newaygo county, Michigan. In 1938, the title to the real estate involved became vested in A. Wilder Gleason and Marion Gleason. The terms of the alleged agreement, as set forth in plaintiff’s bill of complaint, read as follows:

“That during the spring of 1942, the aforementioned A. Wilder Gleason, who was one of the joint, owners of the property described above,…