Illinois Supreme Court February 17, 1915 (Richardson v. Lander)

Mr. Justice Farmer

delivered the opinion of the court :

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of McLean county, dismissing, for want of equity, appellant’s bill asking for the specific performance of a parol contract to convey eighty acres of land.

Matthew Richardson, Sr., in his lifetime was the owner of the eighty acres in controversy.