Flowers v. Roberts

Oxner, Justice.

This is an appeal by Marion Roberts from an order adjudging that his aunt, Mrs. Ethel E. Flowers, respondent here and plaintiff below, has fee simple title to, and is entitled to the immediate and exclusive possession of, a house and lot in the Town of Marion, and requiring the said Marion Roberts to vacate said property and deliver possession thereof to respondent.

The issues involved can better be understood after the facts leading up to this controversy are stated.

Respondent, now in her late sixties, had three brothers and one sister. All of them were born on a farm about ten…