Evans v. Evans

This litigation has developed by reason of the claimed failure of a grantee in a conveyance of land in Clay County, Iowa, to carry out the alleged provisions of an oral agreement to pay certain debts that developed in the handling of the estate of the former owner. The trial court refused to burden the land deeded to the grantee with a lien covering the indebtedness that grantors claimed the grantee or her agent, in her behalf, had agreed to pay. The plaintiffs have appealed. A summary of the facts that have occasioned this litigation is hereafter set forth.

Edward Evans died intestate on July…