Bright v. Channels

Lively, Judge:

This suit is for partition of the land of Sylvester Channels, deceased. Robert Channels, his son, by answer in the nature of a cross-bill, set up a claim to the land by virtue of a verbal contract entered into with the decedent, evidenced by a paper writing signed by him a few days before his death, whereby for services rendered on the farm and for care of his father in his declining years he was to have title to and ownership of the land. The decree of August 9, 1921, rejected the answer as not constituting a defense to the bill for partition, held that Sylvester Channels, at…