Opinion ID: 1957579
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Heading: The Simmonses' version of the facts

Text: ¶ 6. The Simmonses' story is somewhat different. They claim Jaggers offered to build the house as a wedding gift, and they deny ever making any agreement to pay him $20,000 upon sale of the house. Eddie says when Jaggers learned that the house was going to be sold, he demanded $20,000 be put aside to put on another house and to make sure Eddie didn't do something with it. Eddie says when he told Jaggers, in effect, to mind his own business, Jaggers placed the lien on the house. ¶ 7. The house sold for $175,000, yielding a profit of approximately $50,000. At trial, Jaggers claimed $20,000 of that profit was owed to him, and the remaining profit of approximately $30,000 was intended as a wedding gift. The Simmonses claimed all the profit belongs to them. The chancellor found the parties had entered a binding oral contract, and she awarded a $20,000 judgment to Jaggers, from which the Simmonses now appeal.