Legal Opinion
Sykes v. Sykes
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided December 16, 1954No. 6 Div. 393PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWYN, Justice.
Bill in equity by Pearl Sykes to have a resulting trust in real property decreed in-her favor, or, in the conditional alternative, to have a lien in her favor fixed on said property for moneys expended by her for the benefit and protection of the property. This appeal is by Frances Sykes, one of the respondents, from a decree overruling her demurrer to the bill.
In substance, the bill alleges the following : On March 29, 1938, a quit-claim deed was executed by R. M. Kimbrough and wife-conveying legal title to certain real property in Jefferson County to Wilmar Sykes, one of…
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- Scruggs v. Decatur Mineral & Land Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1888
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