Logan v. Johnson
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Yazoo county. Hon. H. C. Conn, Chancellor. Appeal by complainants from an adverse decree. The opinion contains a statement of the facts bearing upon the only point decided. The decree appealed from is contrary both to the law and the facts. The evidence shows that complainant furnished the money to purchase and improve the land, and that the title was taken in her father’s name for her benefit.
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From the chancery court of Yazoo county. Hon. H. C. Conn, Chancellor. Appeal by complainants from an adverse decree. The opinion contains a statement of the facts bearing upon the only point decided. The decree appealed from is contrary both to the law and the facts. The evidence shows that complainant furnished the money to purchase and improve the land, and that the title was taken in her father’s name for her benefit. It makes no difference whether the money ever reached her hands, provided it was agreed that the indebtedness from Johnson to Logan was to be satisfied in the transaction.…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
The decree of the chancellor must be affirmed. It is evident that the complainant and the defendant, Delaware Johnson, have made common cause against the defendant, Amelia Johnson, in whom the title of the land, as. to which a resulting trust is sought to be established for the complainant, is now vested. The facts from which the trust is supposed to result are testified to by the complainant and by Delaware Johnson, and there is a radical variance in their statements. The complainant testified that she owned a horse which her father traded for a bale of cotton, which cotton he sold, and with…
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