Richard v. James

This is an action wherein plaintiff in error, as plaintiff, sought to have declared void and of no effect a deed and trust agreement whereby defendants, as trustees, became grantees of certain properties therein described. In her behalf it is charged that said deed and trust agreement did not constitute an irrevocable transfer of said properties in trust, but that said transaction was colorable merely and resorted to for the purpose of defeating the rights of plaintiff by perpetrating a fraud upon her.

No oral evidence was offered in the trial court, the case having been submitted on an agreed…