Rodgers v. Thornton

SIMPSON, ' Justice.

This case was here before on appeal from a decree on demurrer, where it was held that the bill was good as one to establish a resulting trust. Reference may be -had to that opinion for the pleadings in the case. Thornton v. Rodgers, 251 Ala. 553, 38 So.2d 479.

The present appeal presents for de^ cisión the right of appellant to relief on the facts.

Mrs. Rodgers, the appellant, formerly wife of defendant, J. L. Thornton, in March, 1948, filed the bill against him to establish a resulting trust in various of his real estate holdings on the theory that in 1925 he had received a…