POORE v. SLAUGHTER

No. 5-4612.

431 S.W.2d 837 (1968)

Brandt POORE, Executor, Appellant, v. Floyd SLAUGHTER et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied October 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mahony & Yocum, El Dorado, for appellant.

Don Gillaspie, El Dorado, for appellees.


BYRD, Justice.

Appellant, Robert H. Poore, appeals from a decree directing specific performance of an oral contract for the conveyance of timber. The trial court held that the payment of the consideration and the partial performance by appellees, Floyd Slaughter and Larry Don Slaughter, d/b/a Slaughter & Son, was sufficient to take the oral contract out of the statute of frauds, Ark.Stat.Ann. § 38-101 (Repl. 1962).

For reversal, Poore contends that...

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