Straight v. Hill

OPINION

DIMOND, Senior Justice.

Robert Straight executed and delivered a deed to forty acres of his homestead to Harold Hill. In this action brought by Straight, he claimed that the deed was intended to serve only as a security instrument. The superior court granted summary judgment to Hill, the effect of which was to make Hill the owner of the forty acres of property involved. The court’s action was based on four separate grounds, namely: (1) that the statute of frauds barred Straight’s claim; (2) that laches barred Straight’s claim; (3) that the applicable statute of limitation barred…