First National v. Blackburn

Weltner, Justice.

These consolidated cases involve divorce, alimony, and equitable division of property.

Mrs. Blackburn filed for divorce against her husband, seeking alimony and equitable division of property, and sought an order restraining him from transferring or encumbering property. The bank intervened, claiming an equitable interest in property titled in the husband based upon his oral promise to pay his indebtedness to the bank from proceeds of a sale of the property. The bank also filed an action against the husband which sought a special lien on the real property.

On August 30, 1984, a…