Magaw v. Beals

The jury would have been warranted in finding that, ten or twelve years previous to March 17, 1919, the record title to the premises in question was in one Albert E. Little, also an attorney at law, who formerly had been in the same law office as the defendant. While Mr. Little had no beneficial interest, the title being taken in his name for undisclosed reasons, the defendant, his brother, and his sister’s husband, Frank A. Bourne, who acted as trustees under an unrecorded trust deed, were the real owners. Mr. Little when he acquired title, simultaneously reconveyed to the trustees; but the…