Bassett v. Bassett

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The appellee, R. J. Bassett, in 1912 brought this suit in equity against the appellant, E. R. Bassett, in which he averred that in 1909 he and E. R. Bassett entered into a verbal agreement to and did purchase certain tracts of land in Grayson County, Ky., aggregating 2,650 acres, describing it. That E. R. Bassett, fraudulently and knowingly, and without his knowledge or consent, had the title to the land conveyed to himself, when it should have been conveyed to both of them jointly so as to invest each with an undivided one-half inters est. That…