Martin v. Scholl

HOWE, Justice:

Defendant George H. Chaffin Investment Company, a limited partnership, seeks reversal of a decree granting plaintiff Rodney Martin specific performance of an oral contract which the trial court found that the deceased George H. Chaffin had made to convey or devise to him certain real property in Genola, Utah County.

Martin began working as a ranch laborer for Chaffin in 1936. He became foreman over all of Chaffin’s farm and ranch properties in 1947 and continued in that capacity beyond Chaffin’s death to January of 1976. The Investment Company disputed but the trial court found…