Meadows v. Phillips

Sognier, Judge.

Zack Phillips brought suit against his son-in-law, Robert Meadows, alleging that Meadows owed him $4,000 and that he had been stubborn and litigious in failing to repay it. Meadows denied owing the money. The trial court granted Phillips’ motion for summary judgment and Meadows appeals.

The record reveals that on several occasions beginning approximately in 1980 appellee brought various sums of money either to appellant or to appellant’s wife, who was appellee’s daughter, for safekeeping, explaining that he just did not want the money “in his name.” It is uncontroverted that the…