McCorkle v. . Beatty

We think that plaintiffs’ exception to the instruction given to the jury as to the weight and sufficiency of the evidence required to carry the burden of the issue must be sustained.

In a jurisdiction like ours, where the Seventh Section of the English Statute of Frauds, requiring the creation of trusts to be manifested in writing, has not been enacted, parol trusts may be imposed upon the legal title upon proof of an oral promise to hold in trust for the promisee; and parol evidence to prove such a trust is admitted “not to contradict the deed, but to bind the party to the trust which he…