Pollock v. Pollock
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill nsr equity, filed in the Superior Court on March 16,1914, seeking to establish a resulting trust in favor of the plaintiff in certain land and the buildings thereon on Lewis Avenue in Arlington standing in the name of the defendant, the wife of the plaintiff, and praying that the defendant be ordered to convey the real estate to the plaintiff and to refrain from disposing of it otherwise.
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Bill nsr equity, filed in the Superior Court on March 16,1914, seeking to establish a resulting trust in favor of the plaintiff in certain land and the buildings thereon on Lewis Avenue in Arlington standing in the name of the defendant, the wife of the plaintiff, and praying that the defendant be ordered to convey the real estate to the plaintiff and to refrain from disposing of it otherwise. The case was heard by Wait, J., who found the facts that are stated in the opinion and ordered that the bill be dismissed, without costs. From a final decree entered in pursuance of this order the…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
From the findings of fact it appears that on October 9, 1907, the plaintiff, with the assent and approval of his wife, the defendant, took title in the name of his wife to the real estate upon which, in his bill, he seeks to have impressed a resulting trust in his favor. The consideration paid for the conveyance was $3,000, which was made up of and had its source in money on deposit in the name of the wife in a savings bank, in cash directly furnished by the husband and from the avails of a note, signed only by the wife, which note was secured by a mortgage upon the *384real estate conveyed and…
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