Alonzo v. Laubert

JAMES A. MOORE, Special Judge.

Plaintiffs, respondents here, alleged in their “bill in equity” that each of them was entitled to a one-sixth interest in a described parcel of realty in the City of St. Louis by reason of an oral agreement with their sister Margaret Laubert and prayed specific performance. Margaret’s husband, Forrest, was joined as a defendant because of a subsequent and allegedly fraudulent conveyance creating an estate by the entirety. Defendants denied the agreement and invoked the statute of frauds.

Following trial to the court, a decree was entered which included findings of…