Tansil v. Tansil

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

We granted appellant W. Grigsby Tan-sil’s rule eleven application to review the finding of the Court of Appeals that there was “clear, cogent and convincing” evidence to establish the existence of an oral trust in real estate.

Appellees, Blanche and Rebecca Tansil were the former title holders to the realty in question, 152 acres of land located in Weakley County known as the “Tansil homeplace.” Blanche owned a three-fourths interest and Rebecca a one-fourth interest and the record reveals that the homeplace consisted of about one hundred acres of farm land and fifty…