Grissom v. Bunch

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

Appellee, Mrs. Mattie Moody Bunch, brought this suit seeking to be declared the sole owner of certain lands in Mississippi County. She claimed that her mother, Mrs. Florence Moody Crawford, held the title as a constructive trustee for Mattie Moody Bunch. The defendants — appellants here — were the beneficiaries under the will of Mrs. Florence Moody Crawford. From a decree, declaring and enforcing the trust as prayed by the plaintiff, there is this appeal.

Matt Moody, father of Mattie Moody Bunch, died in 1906, the owner of an undivided one-third interest in…