Deichmann v. Deichmann

This is a petition for the specific performance of a contract for the sale by defendant to-Frederick Deichmann, the father and husband of the plaintiffs, during Deichmann’s life, of the undivided half of some seventy acres of land situate in St. Charles county. In regard to some of the allegations of the petition, the testimony is contradictory; but it is undisputed that the legal title was in defendant, and that on the 15th of August, 1864, he and Frederick Deichmann executed a written agreement by which they entered into partnership in regard to the land in controversy, and that Frederick…