Jones v. Adams

HOLDEN, Justice.

This is a suit to compel the specific performance of an oral contract to will real property. The cause was tried April 25, 1946. August 5, 1946, findings of fact and conclusions of law were made and entered in favor of' plaintiff and respondent and against defendants and appellants. Whereupon decree was entered and rendered on such findings. October 2, 1946, defendants appealed.

It appears from the record that John L. and Lora I. Michael were childless; that in the latter part of 1907 Johnson Jones, then a widower, and the father of respondent, Virgil Jones, a minor, spoke to…