Powell v. Wiley

HARVEY, Commissioner.

The respondents, Mrs. Larue Wiley and her husband, instituted this suit against the petitioners, Mrs. Madge Powell and Mrs. Pansy Ruth McCutcheon and her husband. The object of the suit is to establish the equitable title and right of possession claimed by Mrs. Wiley under a parol gift of a certain tract of 128 acres of land in Cass County. The gift is alleged to have been made by Mrs. Powell to Mrs. Wiley in the year 1934. Mrs. McCutcheon holds a warranty deed to the same tract of land, which was duly executed to her by Mrs. Powell in the year 1940.

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