Compton v. Skeeters

This is a suit by appellees against appellant for the partitioning of the estate of their deceased father and mother, W. L. Skeeters and Ruth P. Skeeters, who had died intestate.

In their petition appellees alleged that appellant and appellees were all of the legal heirs of said W. D. and Ruth P. Skeeters, and were joint owners of said estate, and prayed that same be partitioned. Appellant answered, and claimed the whole of said estate by virtue of an alleged parol gift from her said parents, with whom she alleged she had lived, and for whom she had cared for some nine years prior to their…