McElroy v. Gay

SEBRING, J.:

This is an appeal from an order dismissing an amended bill of complaint. The object of the suit is to procure the cancellation of a deed and the reconveyance of certain real property owned'by the plaintiff. The primary question on the appeal is whether the amended bill of complaint contains equity. •

The charge made by the bill is that one Ida Belle Gay, an unmarried female under the age of seventeen years, promised to marry the plaintiff, J. J. McElroy, a single man, and that solely in consideration of said promise of marriage and in reliance thereon McElroy deeded to Ida Belle…