Wills ex rel. Wills v. Westendorf
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Bremer District Court. — Hon. Clieeord P. • Smith, Judge. Action to enforce specific performance of an oral contract to convey land. There was a decree for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal. —
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
— The allegations for plaintiffs which *294find some support in the evidence are that in 1903 the plaintiff Fred Wills and his wife, Emma, the daughter of the defendant Westendorf, Sr., were induced to take possession of a farm of one hundred and sixty acres belonging to said defendant by the promise of said defendant that, if they would do so, he would make them a deed to the farm and give to his said daughter $1,000 in money; that, after the death of said daughter in January, 1905, another arrangement was made between Fred Wills and the defendant, by which the former was to have the use of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Holmes v. ConnableSupreme Court of Iowa · 1900
3Cited by3 opinions
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- Vanston v. RupeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1953
- Witte v. GardnerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1913