Pickle v. Martin

This is an action to cancel an instrument of record and to quiet title. Judgment was for plaintiff on directed verdict, and defendant appeals.

The instrument aforesaid was in the form of a letter signed by defendant and acknowledged by him in statutory form, and addressed to himself, wherein he set up a claim to an undivided one-third interest in the land in question by virtue of an alleged oral .agreement whereby he was to receive a deed to said interest in consideration for certain services to be performed for plaintiff in the nature of the compromise and settlement of certain creditors’…