Daugherty v. Poppen

Plaintiff brought suit in the circuit court for the specific performance of a verbal agreement for the conveyance of an 80-acre farm in Ottawa county, claimed to have been made between plaintiff and his stepfather, James Thorp. The defendants are the administrator of the estate, and the heirs at law, of Mr. Thorp, who died in June, 1945. Plaintiff’s claims as to the circumstances under which the alleged agreement was made, and the terms and conditions thereof, are set forth in parar graphs 4 and 5 of the bill of complaint as follows:

“4. That in the month of February, 1943, after said Thorp…