O'Connor v. Waters

This is an action to enforce the specific performance of an oral contract, by the terms of which Patrick O’Connor agreed to convey or devise to his son, the plaintiff, a quarter section of land in Dakota county. The plaintiff prevailed, and the defendants appeal.

It appears that in 1879, Patrick O’Connor, now deceased, in company with his wife and seven children, came to Dakota county, and two years subsequently acquired title to the land in controversy. Patrick O’Con-nor’s four daughters remained at home until they entered *225the marriage relation, hut the sons, Morris and John, and Charles, the…