Krueger v. Callies

This is an action for the specific performance of an alleged agreement for the sale of a homestead. The District Court decreed specific performance. We reverse the judgment.

Defendants are the administrators of the estate of Lawrence C. Callies, deceased. Callies, during his lifetime, was the owner of a 160 acre farm comprising the west half of the west half of Section 34, Township' 22 North, Range 4 West of the 6th P.M., in Madison County, Nebraska.

It is stipulated that the land was the homestead of Callies and his wife. On September 5, 1963, he listed, the property for sale with O. V. and…