Haskell v. Heathcote

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

This is the second appeal in an action in equity by Josephine H. Haskell against her mother, Josephine Sibley Heathcote et al., to compel specific performance of an alleged oral contract for the sale of a large tract of land known as “River Ridge Farm,” located in Yenango County, Pennsylvania.

The original bill was filed on June 2, 1948. Preliminary objections raising the defense of the Statute of Frauds (Act of March 21, 1772, 1 Sm. L. 389, 33 PS 1) were sustained and the bill dismissed. On appeal to this Court, the decree was reversed, the bill reinstated, and…