Bisbee v. Mackay
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on November 5, 1910, by William A. Bisbee (hereinafter called the plaintiff) against Joseph E. Barlow, and Joseph A. Mackay, James Reid Hyde and Wilfrid Bovey “as they are trustees of the Commonwealth Avenue Trust,” to establish in the plaintiff’s favor, as to certain land held by the defendant trustees, a trust which was set out in an unrecorded contract in writing between the plaintiff and the defendant Barlow, who…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on November 5, 1910, by William A. Bisbee (hereinafter called the plaintiff) against Joseph E. Barlow, and Joseph A. Mackay, James Reid Hyde and Wilfrid Bovey “as they are trustees of the Commonwealth Avenue Trust,” to establish in the plaintiff’s favor, as to certain land held by the defendant trustees, a trust which was set out in an unrecorded contract in writing between the plaintiff and the defendant Barlow, who formerly had held the legal title to the land and who had conveyed it through a conduit to himself and two others as trustees…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The plaintiff by this bill seeks to establish a trust for his benefit in lands now held by the defendants under a recorded declaration of trust. The material facts are these: In October, 1908, William A. Bisbee and Joseph E. Barlow entered into a written agreement for the purchase of land for their joint account. The plaintiff furnished $2,500, which appears to have been all the money put into the transaction at that time. The title was to be taken in the name of Barlow, who was to have the active management of the venture and sell the estate for the benefit of both. The plaintiff was to have…
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