Coughlin v. Coughlin

Plaintiff seeks to have established and confirmed his title to a quarter section of Webster County, Iow'a land and predicates his right on an alleged parol gift from his father D. S. Coughlin, defendant herein. In his petition he alleges that he told his father in April 1908 that he contemplated getting married in the fall of that year, and that his father said that whenever the plaintiff wanted to start for himself that he could move up on a certain described northeast quarter of Section 20 as he had always intended that said land should be the plaintiff’s; that he would give said land to…