Kerns v. Kerns

This is a bill in equity in which plaintiff seeks the specific performance of an alleged oral agreement on the part of William Gr. Kerns, now deceased, to leave to plaintiff one-half of the property which the deceased owned at the time of the making of the alleged contract. Plaintiff also seeks to have certain property conveyed to Harriet M. Kerns by the decedent impressed with a trust in his favor.

' The deceased, William Gr. Kerns, was during his lifetime married three times. Plaintiff is a son by the first marriage. When his father and mother separated plaintiff remained with his mother and…