Section 29.8 Express Oral Contracts

• Library: Family Law Deskbook and 2014 Supp

2. (§29.8) Express Oral Contracts

In Welborn v. Rigdon, 231 S.W.2d 127 (Mo. 1950), the trial court dismissed, “for want of equity,” a petition brought by a married man seeking to impose an equitable trust on the land owned by his former lover. The petition alleged that the plaintiff and the defendant entered into an oral agreement whereby the plaintiff would furnish funds
to improve real property owned by the defendant. Thereafter, the property would be sold, and the sale proceeds would be divided in a...