Stone v. Lacy

BROWN, Justice.

The appeal is from an interlocutory decree sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to the bill as last amended.

The bill is by the appellant against the grantee of Carl Burgeson, deceased, filed within one year after Burgeson’s death, to enforce an equitable interest in the property described in the bill, as alleged, arising out of an agreement, between Burgeson and complainant, based upon a valuable consideration, that Burgeson would execute a will making complainant his sole devisee.

The equity of the bill depends upon whether or not the agreement as alleged, related to the…