Campbell v. Campbell's trustee
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 81 — EQUITY APPEAL FROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. The lands of the wife having been sold under an agreement with her-husband that its proceeds should be invested in a larger and more valuable tract, and the deed be made to her, and the money having-been so invested, and the husband having, without her knowledge- or consent, taken a deed to himself, a trust thereby resulted to her;, and the husband having thereafter invested her with the title, in order to carry out the…
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Case 81 — EQUITY APPEAL FROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. The lands of the wife having been sold under an agreement with her-husband that its proceeds should be invested in a larger and more valuable tract, and the deed be made to her, and the money having-been so invested, and the husband having, without her knowledge- or consent, taken a deed to himself, a trust thereby resulted to her;, and the husband having thereafter invested her with the title, in order to carry out the former agreement, the same should be upheld - against the husband’s creditors. (Sec. 19, p. 587, General Statutes; Mallory…
1Opinion of the Court
•JUDGE HAB.GIS
delivered the opinion op the court.
At the time the appellants, Josephine Campbell and S. L. Campbell, intermarried, the latter was possessed of considerable estate, and ivas thought to be solvent by the community in which he resided, and his wife was the owner, by .gift from her father, of a tract of land worth about $4,000.
She agreed with her husband to sell her land, and invest the proceeds in another tract larger and more valuable than bers, lying in the same county, and contiguous to his lands upon which they resided, on the condition that the deed should be made to her.
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2Cases cited3 opinions
- Wickes v. ClarkeNew York Court of Chancery · 1840
- Miller v. EdwardsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1870
- Latimer v. GlennCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1866
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- Patrick v. PraterCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1911
- Meade v. StairsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1888
- Goff v. DanielsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1915
- Meadors v. Meadors' Admr.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1921
- Young v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1913
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