Scott v. Smith

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff appellants are the heirs at law of George Scott, recently dead intestate, and they sue the defendant appellee, Irene Smith, asserting that six tracts of land in Texas to which she had the paper title had been purchased with money of Scott with a resulting trust in his favor. A decree accordingly, with possession of the land and recovery of rents and revenues and general relief, is prayed. Irene Smith asserts that the lands were bought with her money and that no one else had any interest in them, and she prays that title be quieted in her and for general…