Simpson v. Hoffman

MATHEWS, Justice.

There was filed in the County Judge’s Court of Polk County an unlawful detainer suit by the appellee against the appellants in this cause. The suit was dismissed by the County Judge on the ground that title to the property was involved. The appellants then filed a suit in the Circuit Court alleging an oral agreement with the ap-pellee for the purchase-of the tract of land in question, and claimed they had paid half of the "purchase price although the deed was taken in the name o.f the appellee. In seeking to impose a trust upon the property they claimed that they had a fifty…