Smith v. Knapp

This suit in equity is brought by the plaintiff to establish a trust for her benefit in certain real estate of the defendant. It is alleged in the bill that, pursuant to a conspiracy between the defendant and one Helen C. Tripp, the latter by false representations known to the defendant, induced the plaintiff to turn over to her $2,000 to be invested for the benefit of the plaintiff in securities; that the defendant procured Miss Tripp to apply $1,500 of the money so obtained in payment of an amount due on a mortgage on real estate of the defendant; that part of the money so obtained has been…