Marrable v. Hamilton

Appellee instituted this action against appellant in the chancery court of Ooliimrjia County seeking to establish a resulting trust in certain real estate in the town of Magnolia. He seeks to have the trust established on the ground that by agreement between him and appellant the latter was to purchase the lots from W. A. Scott, the owner, that he (appellee) should pay one-sixth of the purchase price and become the owner of an undivided one-sixth of the property to be purchased, and that this arrangement had been carried out by appellant consummating the purchase from Scott and securing a…