DAVIS v. DAVIS

No. 52631.

156 N.W.2d 870 (1968)

Curtis DAVIS, Appellant, v. W. E. DAVIS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 5, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Life, Davis & Life, Oskaloosa, for appellant.

Johnson & Jordan, Knoxville, for appellee.


MASON, Justice.

This is an equitable action to enforce an alleged 1953 oral agreement that if plaintiff, Curtis Davis, 42, would contribute his work as a farmer and assist his defendant father, W. E. Davis, 72, in paying all defendant's debts he would make a will giving plaintiff half his estate. Plaintiff alleged defendant had made such a will but cancelled it and made other wills in violation of the contract. Plaintiff seeks to restrain his father from making a...

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