Gaskins v. Vickery

Hall, Justice.

This is a dispute over title to real property in which plaintiffs below claimed to have bought land in instalments, and defendant asserted that the payments so made were merely rent. The plaintiffs, who prevailed at trial, are the heirs of Lonnie Vickery (hereinafter, the Vickery heirs), and defendant is Phillip Gaskins. The Vickery heirs claim that the house and land in dispute belong to them as a consequence of a 1960 oral contract in which Lonnie Vickery agreed to buy the premises from Gaskins, who was then the owner, by assuming the *834indebtedness on Gaskins’ deed to secure…