Crain v. Keenan

This is a suit by J. H. Crain to enforce an oral contract by which the appellees, Dan Keenan and his son Robert, agreed to buy for Crain a farm in Yell County. According to Crain, the Keenans were to pay not more than $15,000 for the land and take title in their own names. Crain was then to pay them $4,000, plus $500 for their expenses, and the Keenans were to deed the land to Crain and take a mortgage for the rest of the purchase price, payable in five years with 6% interest. The Keenans did buy the farm, but they insist that the purchase was for their own benefit and that they then rented…