ELDRIDGE v. LOFTIS

1961193 and 1961301

723 So.2d 562 (1998)

Mary Ann ELDRIDGE, et al. v. Deloris LOFTIS, et al. Deloris Loftis a/k/a Annie Deloris Loftis, et al. v. Mary Ann Eldridge, et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Order Modifying Opinion Modified on Overruling of Rehearing September 25, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace H. Lindsey III, Butler, for appellants/cross appellees.

Joseph C. McCorquodale III and Jacqualyn S. Bradley of McCorquodale & McCorquodale, Jackson; Joseph W. Hutchinson III, Butler; and Timothy C. Hutchinson, Butler, for appellees/cross appellants.


ALMON, Justice.

The question in this appeal is whether the counterclaimants presented sufficient evidence of a parol gift of real property by a grandmother to her grandson, coupled with adverse possession by the grandson, to overcome a provision of the grandmother's will giving her grandson only a life estate in that same real property. We hold that the grandson received a life estate.

At the time of trial, both the grandmother, Dotsie McAllister, and the...

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