JENNINGS v. ACHUFF

No. 44206.

272 S.W.2d 263 (1954)

C. (Chet) E. JENNINGS and Ethyle Jennings, Respondents, v. Elsie ACHUFF, Defendant, Betty Carr and Pearl Reed, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

November 8, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Esco V. Kell, West Plains, for appellants.

Green & Green, Will H. D. Green, H. D. Green, West Plains, for respondents.


TIPTON, Presiding Judge.

This is an action for specific performance of an oral contract whereby Harold C. Dowler, deceased, agreed to devise lots 5 and 7 in block 1, Graham's Addition to the City of West Plains, Missouri, to respondents, C. (Chet) E. Jennings and his wife, Ethyle Jennings, for certain labor performed by them during his lifetime. The trial court decreed specific performance of the oral contract.

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