Bowen v. Galloway

The opinion of the court was delivered by Johnston, C. J.:

This was an action for the specific performance of a verbal contract alleged to have been made between the plaintiff, Hattie Lorena Bowen, and her mother, Eleanor Katherman, under which the plaintiff claimed that she had become the owner and entitled to the possession of an eighty-acre farm in Douglas county. The plaintiff pleaded that her mother owned the farm and that a contract had been made between them, in substance that sometime in 1905 her mother agreed that if plaintiff would remain on the farm, cultivate it and raise crops…