Talley v. Talley

SIMPSON, Justice.

The case is here on appeal from a decree overruling the .demurrer to a bill in equity seeking to enforce an implied trust in lands or in the alternative to have complainant decreed an interest in the property by reason of a joint undertaking of purchase.

The substance and effect of the allegations are: The plaintiff and defendant, sister and brother respectively, had for many years maintained a joint household and in 1935 purchased 122 acres of farm land from one Graves as their joint property under a verbal agreement with each other that it would be their joint homestead and…