Ragland v. Ragland

OPINION

THOMAS, Justice.

The constitutional county court of Somer-vell County imposed a constructive trust on the funds in a profit-sharing plan to prevent a common-law wife from unjustly enriching herself by murdering her husband. The judgment will be reversed because only a statutory probate court or a district court can impose a constructive trust.

Lee Ann Ragland was convicted of murdering her common-law husband, Stephen Ragland, and sentenced to forty years in prison. Marine Drilling Company, her husband’s employer, deposited $2,313.64 by in-terpleader in the constitutional county court of…