Jacques v. Jacques

Plaintiff John Jacques filed a bill of complaint in equity seeking to require his brother and sister-in-law, defendants Raphael Jacques and Jane Jacques, to account, as constructive trustees, for certain funds which Jane Jacques had withdrawn from an account in the Peoples National Bank of Bay City.

The account had been originally opened by plaintiff’s father, John Fabian Jacques, who subsequently added Jane’s name thereto.

On hearing before the circuit court of Bay county, the court at the close of plaintiff’s proofs granted a motion to dismiss the hill of complaint, from which decree…