Barnes v. Powell

BROWN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to the bill filed by the appellant against the defendant seeking to charge him as a trustee ex maleficio in procuring, through fraud, title to property, belonging to complainant, and to require him to account for the value of timber cut and sold from the property, money collected on insurance policies covering buildings destroyed by fire, and rents or profits arising from the use and occupation of the lands by the defendant.

In another aspect the bill seeks to have cancelled two deeds, which the…