Johnson v. Flatness

KEETON, Justice.

This is a suit to compel specific performance of an alleged oral contract to will land and personal property and impress the same with a trust. The cause was tried before the court without a jury on the 31st of May, 1949, and findings of facts and conclusions of law and decree were entered in favor of the plaintiffs (respondents here). Defendants appealed from the judgment.

The testimony discloses that about 1900 R. J. Johnson and his first wife, Gunhilda Johnson, acquired certain farm lands near Troy, Idaho. To them were born five children, namely, Anna Bovencamp, Olga…