Dickson v. Dickson

OPINION

WITTIG, Justice.

Appeal is from an adverse summary judgment. Louis Dickson, the son, joined by his wife, claimed a parol gift of real estate or alternatively, adverse possession from his father and stepmother, Charles Dickson, Jr. and Mrs. Agnes Dickson, respectively. First, we consider old and unchallenged law that allows the parol gift of real estate under these circumstances. In 1969, the father, now deceased, helped his son move a house from a condemned part of his and his wife’s land onto a non-condemned portion of this property which was thereafter occupied and improved by the…