Marshall v. . Hammock

On 2 November, 1869, J. P. Whicker and his wife conveyed the land in controversy to George W. Hammock, the second husband of the plaintiff’s mother, and acknowledged payment of the purchase price by the grantee therein named. The deed was registered 13 January, 1870. The plaintiff alleged that the land had been paid for with his mother’s money and that George W. Hammock held the legal title in trust for her during her life and thereafter until his death for her heirs at law. The ease was tried upon this theory, the plaintiff contending that after the death of his mother, George W. Hammock was…