Payne v. Winters

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Chidsey,

Annie M. Payne, appellant, filed her bill in equity against her son by a former marriage and daughter-in-law, Edward and Agnes E. Winters, to compel a re-conveyance of real estate which she had transferred to Mrs. Winters. The gravamen of the bill was failure of consideration and breach of a contemporaneous oral agreement providing that appellees should maintain, support and provide a home for appellant for the balance of her life. The chancellor, after hearing, held that a breach of the agreement had not been shown and dismissed the bill. This appeal is from the…