Ray v. Norris
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Judge.
Defendants bring forward three assignments of error; (1) the trial court’s failure to direct a verdict in favor of the defendants due to the insufficiency of plaintiffs evidence, (2) the trial court’s refusal to instruct on the doctrine of clean hands, and (3) its refusal to instruct on the doctrine of pro tanto resulting trust. Upon our review of the record we find that neither the doctrine of pro tanto resulting trust nor the clean hands doctrine is applicable to these facts and that there was sufficient evidence from which the jury could find that a resulting trust arose in…
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