Oklahoma Nat. Bank v. Cobb
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, 'Muskogee County; R. P. de Gi'affenried, Judge. Action by the Oklahoma National Bank, a corporation, and another, against H. C. Cobb and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error.
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Error from District Court, 'Muskogee County; R. P. de Gi'affenried, Judge. Action by the Oklahoma National Bank, a corporation, and another, against H. C. Cobb and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error. This was an action instituted by the plaintiffs in error to subject certain land in the city of Muskogee to the payment of judgments they had obtained against H. C. Cobb, the one on November 1, 1912, and- the other on November 13, 1912. The notes of H. C. Cobb, on which the judgments were obtained, were dated, the one on January 14, 1912, and the other on June 14, 1912,…
1Opinion of the Court
DEVEREUX, C.
(after stating the facts as above). The plaintiffs in error urge that the trial court committed error in admitting parol evidence that Jóhn 0. Cobb had the patent to this land issued in the name of Henry C. Cobb to hold in trust for himself and the other children of John 0. Cobb by a previous marriage, on the ground that parol evidence is not admissible to prove an express trust. But the trust in this case was fully executed when Henry C. Cobb, the trustee, executed and delivered the deed to his sisters (Logan v. Brown, 20 Okla. 334, 95 Pac. 441, 20 L. R. A. [N. S.] 298), and the…
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