In Re the Estate of Gosmire

HENDERSON, Justice.

ACTION

The decedent, Norman C. Gosmire, was a cattle feeder and farmer who lived north of Winfred, South Dakota. In 1980, he died intestate at the age of sixty-four. In the estate proceedings, appellees alternatively claimed (1) enforcement of an oral sale of a farm and equipment, (2) a decree of specific performance for conveyance of real estate, livestock, and farm machinery based upon an oral agreement allegedly made wherein and whereby appellees were entitled to such a conveyance if they performed certain work, and (3) failing these two alternatives, reimbursement on a…