Gates Hotel Co. v. C. R. H. Davis Real Estate Co.

This is an action in equity the purpose of which is to establish a trust in favor of plaintiff, Gates Hotel Company, in certain real and personal property located in the city of St. Louis. The decree below was in favor of plaintiff and both parties appealed.

Both plaintiff and defendant are Missouri corporations. Royal Investment Company, another Missouri corporation also figures in the transaction. It appears from the petition that plaintiff, Gates Hotel Company, was the owner of six eleven-room residence buildings located in the city of St. Louis; that each of said residence buildings was…