4 Iowa 279 | Iowa | 1856
Counsel do not differ as to the legal or equitable rules and principles which must govern in the decision of this case. The substantial question is whether, under the testimony, the complainant is entitled to the .relief claimed by his bill, and this issue must be decided in favor of respondent. To refer to all the testimony, is entirely unnecessary, and especially so, when such reference would in this opinion, answer no valuable purpose. We content ourselves, therefore, with stating two grounds upon which the decree below may clearly be sustained. The first is a want of clearness in the proof as to the agreement, and ■the compliance therewith as set up in the bill. The legal title is in respondent. Complainant seeks to divest it by proof of a parol gift upon conditions, which he says have been complied with by him. To sustain these averments,
Decree affirmed.