Bildner v. Giacoma

KELLY, Judge.

These two appeals consolidated in this court are from a judgment of the St. Louis County Circuit Court ordering specific performance of an oral contract to devise two parcels of real estate to the respondent and denying the counterclaim of the appellant-executor for a sum of $26,000.00 he alleges was loaned to the respondent by his decedent prior to death and which remains due and unpaid.

The parties shall hereinafter be identified in the position they occupied in the trial court: i. e., Mr. Bildner as the plaintiff, Mr. Giacoma, the defendant-executor, and Mrs. Smith, the…