Speights v. Deon

GRISSOM, Justice.

Alex Deon and wife, Cora, instituted this suit against Henry Speights for the purpose of engrafting a parol trust on a deed. In 1926 plaintiffs executed a general warranty deed to a lot to Walter and Dora Nichols. Dora was the sister of Cora Deon. The deed recited a consideration of $360 paid. Plaintiffs alleged that when the deed was executed there was an agreement between the grantors and grantees therein that the grantees should occupy the lot conveyed and the house situated thereon so long as either of them should live, but that the conveyance to said grantees was in…