Jones v. Ewart

Lightner, District Judge.

This controversy arises by reason of a provision in a deed by Charles and Emma L. Stinton to their son-in-law and daughter, Clyde K. Ewart and Vallia F. Ewart, which among other considerations requires the grantees to pay $10,000 to three other children of the Stintons a year after the death of the survivor of the Stintons. An attempt was made later by the Stintons and Ewarts to cancel this $10,-000 provision by an amendment to the deed. The claim of certain of the defendants is that the $10,000 provision amounted to a completed gift inter vivos which could not be…