Jackson v. First Nat. Bk. Tr. Co. of Laporte

— The appellee bank, administrator of the estate of Charles W. Jackson, deceased, filed its petition for leave to sell decedent’s real estate to pay debts and expenses of administration; making appellants, who are decedent’s surviving brothers and sisters and as such his sole and only heirs-at-law, and the appellees Anderson & Anderson who were in possession of the real estate, parties thereto.

The appellee Ura Anderson, who will be hereafter re ferred to as the appellee, filed a cross-complaint alleging an oral contract with the decedent, whereby he promised and agreed that if she would take…