Reese v. Murnan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stiles, J.

The main question in this case is, what kind of evidence shall be held sufficient to charge the estate of a deceased person with a resulting trust in real property 1

Thomas Murnan died seized of certain lands in Cowlitz county, comprising a large part of the ‘ ‘ original townsite *375of Kalama,” and Reese, the respondent, has asserted to the satisfaction of the learned superior court that he was entitled to half of it, because he furnished half of the purchase price of the land, under an agreement with Murnan that the title should be the property…