Snyder v. French

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Sangamon county sustaining a demurrer to complainant’s bill for the specific performance of a parol contract to convey land, alleged to have been made by James Murphy, deceased. The devisees under the will of said James Murphy were made parties defendant to the bill.

The bill alleges the complainant, Edna Snyder, is the . daughter of George W. Whiteside and Sarah Whiteside, the latter a sister of the wife of James Murphy, deceased; that complainant was born in 1885, her mother dying in 1888^ that James Murphy and his wife were childless,…