TWYFORD v. TWYFORD


243 S.W.2d 930 (1951)

TWYFORD et al. v. TWYFORD et al.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

November 16, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bertram & Bertram, J. M. Kennedy and Bruce H. Phillips, all of Monticello, for appellants.

Fritz Krueger and Russell Jones, Somerset, Hile Pritchard, Albany, J. P. Harrison and Duncan & Duncan, all of Monticello, for appellees.


STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment denying specific performance of a contract to convey land. The case is resolved into whether the evidence of a verbal cancellation of the contract is too weak to sustain the burden of proving it. The chancellor held there was such an agreement.

On March 18, 1937, Bolin R. Twyford and his wife, Matilda, executed to their twin sons, C. Beckham Twyford and W. Bryan Twyford, a contract to convey to them a tract...

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