McKoy v. Enterkin

Bell, Justice.

1. In a suit for land by an administrator, tbe defendant contended that the intestate, his mother, had agreed for him to have the land at her death, in consideration of his paying a stated debt against her. The plaintiff contended, on the contrary, that the defendant had paid the debt solely in consideration of his receiving from *448the estate of his father, previously divided by agreement, a tract of land more valuable than the shares awarded to the other heirs. Held, that evidence as to relative and greater value of the tract conveyed to the defendant by the other heirs in such…