Drury v. Walters

SWINFORD, District Judge.

The record is before the court on the motion of Jane Edgar Walters to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the agreement set forth in the complaint between her late husband, Harry Walters, and the plaintiffs, G. I. Drury and Bertha Ann Drury, was not in writing and is therefore unenforceable by reason of the provisions of the Kentucky' Statute of Frauds, KRS 371.010.

The facts set forth in the complaint are as follows. On December 21, 1949, the plaintiffs executed and delivered to one Harry Walters (now deceased) an oil and gas lease for a term of ten years…