Bethea v. Langford

The defendants have appealed from a final decree in favor of the plaintiff which declared and enforced a resulting trust in and to a one-third interest in certain lands and decreed an accounting between the parties.

The theory of the bill filed by the plaintiff Langford was that the lands involved were purchased by the defendant Elmer Bethea at a tax deed sale, with money owned jointly by the plaintiff and the defendant, as joint adventurers or copartners, with the express oral understanding and agreement between the parties that the land would be bought in by Bethea for and in the name of…