Monroe v. Sams

Citations

• 89 Wash. 51
• 153 P. 1090
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 646

Syllabus

<p>SpEcnno Performance — Parol Gift of Land — Evidence — Sufficiency. Since an oral contract for the gift of land between relatives must be proved by clear and convincing evidence, specific performance of an agreement by parents to deed land to a daughter, in case the son-in-law would build and occupy a house thereon, is properly denied, where the testimony is unequivocally conflicting as to whether such an agreement was made by the father and was insufficient to connect the mother therewith.</p>