Hughes v. Melby

MR. JUSTICE ADAIR:

I dissent.

By amended complaint filed April 17, 1954, in the district court for Petroleum County, Montana, the plaintiff, John Jr. Hughes sought to establish a completed binding contract resting in parol and to compel the defendants, R. M. Melby and Eli, husband and wife and their son, William Melby, to perform the alleged completed and binding oral contract by selling and transferring to the plaintiff, John Jr. Hughes, a 3,560 acre ranch situate in Petroleum County and owned by the de*424fendant Melbys. The plaintiff also sought to recover from the Melbys judgment in the sum of…