Harrison v. Oates

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

Appellant filed a complaint in Chancery asking for specific performance of an oral contract whereby Samuel C. Oates agreed to sell him a farm consisting of 285 acres of land in Conway and Faulkner Counties. Defendants were Mr. Oates and his wife, and also Morris W. Gray who claims to be an innocent purchaser of the same land from the Oates after the alleged oral contract was made.

In his answer Oates denied making the oral contract to sell; admitted writing a letter acknowledging a rental agreement, hut denied that the letter constituted a contract to sell;…