Dodson v. Phagan

The question here is whether parol evidence was admissible to show that the consideration of a deed, recited to be for natural love and affection, was the grantee’s promise to pay certain expenses of the grantor and his wife.

This question arose from an action filed in the Superior Court of Sumter County by the grantor in the deed, H. T. Phagan, against the grantee, Annie Mae Dodson and another party subsequently eliminated, seeking thereafter only recovery of damages for breach of her alleged promise to pay the expenses of his wife’s last illness and burial and of a cemetery monument for her.…