McDole v. Kingsley

Plaintiff in error filed his bill December 1, 1891, in the circuit court of Kane county, against defendants in error, as executor and devisees of Rodney McDole, deceased, to compel the specific performance of an alleged verbal agreement made by his father, the said Rodney McDole. That agreement was alleged to have been made in 1880, and to have provided that complainant should go into possession of about two hundred and thirty acres, part oLthe home farm of his said father; that his father should help to move a small tenant house from another part of the farm, and contribute $100 to repair…