Barefoot v. Oklahoma National Bank & Trust Co. of Chickasha

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

This appeal involves an effort to impress three parcels of rural property in Grady County with a constructive trust, on the theory that title thereto had been earned as attorneys’ fees by the Chickasha Law Firm of Barefoot & Carmichael. The two partners therein, Bert B. Barefoot and J. D. Carmichael, both now deceased, shared equally in the income of this firm, which existed from the year 1901 until January 1, 1937 when it was dissolved by reason of Barefoot’s election to this State’s Criminal Court of Appeals, now Court of Criminal Appeals, after which the then Judge…