Poore v. Slaughter

Conley Byrd, Justice.

Appellant, Robert H. Poore, appeals from a decree directing specific performance of an oral contract for the conveyance of timber. The trial court held that the payment of the consideration and the partial performance by appellees, Floyd Slaughter and Larry Don Slaughter,' d/b/a Slaughter & Son, was sufficient to take the oral contract out of the statute of frauds, Ark. Stat. Ann. § 38-101 (Repl. 1962).

For:-reversal,’ Poore-contends, that the; testimony was insufficient to establish an oral contract and that there was no part performance. Since we find that the record is…