Morton v. Yell

J. L. Jones died testate in April, 1963, leaving his homestead in Prairie Grove to the trustees of two cemeteries. Ten months after Jones’s will was probated the appellants, Ken Morton and his wife, filed this suit in equity against the cemetery trustees and the executor of Jones’s will, asking for specific performance of an oral contract, made in 1960, by which Jones had agreed to leave the property in question to the Mortons in return for their taking care of him for the rest of his life. This appeal is from a decree finding that the Mortons failed to prove their case by clear and…