King v. Warren

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

We granted the rule eleven application of defendant Billy James Warren to review the finding of the Court of Appeals that plaintiffs had established an oral trust in real estate by clear, cogent and convincing evidence.

Plaintiffs are the children of Paul King, deceased, and his second wife, Audrey Faye King. Millie King Hurley Warren was the daughter of Paul King and half-sister of plaintiffs. Defendant Billy King Warren was Millie’s second husband, and he acquired the real estate involved in this suit as sole beneficiary of her will, upon her death in April, 1977.

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