Moss v. Moss

Lynch, Judge:

The bill is to enforce specific performance of an alleged verbal gift by W. M. Moss to his son James M. Moss in June, 1903, of a tract containing about 85 acres of land in Calhoun County. The decree complained of by defendants W. M. Moss and his wife Mary S., plaintiff’s stepmother, did not grant the prayer of the bill, but treated the father as holding the title to the land in trust for himself and his son in the proportions of 530/1658 and 1128/1658, respectively, and provided that if the son should, within thirty days from its date, pay the father $530, he and his wife should…