Campbell v. Welsh

Mildred Campbell died on July 5, 1980, without a will. Surviving her as her heirs were four of her five children and several children of the one child who had predeceased her. At the time of her death, Mrs. Campbell was the record owner of a 2-1/2 acre tract of land in Howard County known as 9575 Gorman Road.

On November 14, 1980, appellant, one of Mrs. Campbell’s surviving children, filed an equity action in the Circuit Court for Howard County, in which he alleged that "in the year of about 1965,” he and his mother had entered into a "verbal agreement” under which she agreed to sell him a…