Gause v. Gause

O’QUINN, Justice.

In this lawsuit a son and his wife seek to impress a trust upon ten acres of land held by his mother which they contend was conveyed by them to his father on the oral representation and promise of his parents that the survivor of them at death would devise the land to the son and his wife.

The ten acres in controversy was an undivided part of 105.5 acres of land in Fay-ette County, Texas, bought in May, 1945, by Leonard L. Gause, Sr., with money furnished by his son, Leonard L., Jr., who at the time was a minor. The deed was taken in the name of the father. It is undisputed…