Estate of Anderson

The trial court based its conclusion to the effect that the payment of $5,000 discharged the contract of February, 1916, upon the case of Heber v. Estate of Heber, 139 Wis. 472, 121 N. W. 328. In that case it is said:

“In the absence of a contract whereby a decedent agreed to pay his son for his services, a conveyance of land by the father to the son would be considered a gift; but the existence of a contract, together with the fact that at the time of the conveyance the decedent was largely in debt for such services, and the absence of evidence of payments otherwise made on such indebtedness,…