Alden v. Trubee
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in Equity to set aside a conveyance and remove a cloud from the petitioner’s title; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. Harriet A. Trubee, the principal respondent, filed a cross-bill praying that the deed of the same property to the petitioner might be set aside as a cloud upon her own title.
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Bill in Equity to set aside a conveyance and remove a cloud from the petitioner’s title; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. Harriet A. Trubee, the principal respondent, filed a cross-bill praying that the deed of the same property to the petitioner might be set aside as a cloud upon her own title. The following facts were found by a committee: The petitioner was formerly the wife of Stephen H. Alden, one of the respondents,'from whom she was divorced upon her own petition in March, 1873, she obtaining from him alimony to the amount of about $60,000. Harriet A. Trubee, the…
1Opinion of the CourtPaek, C. J.
We think it clear the petitioner has failed to make out an equitable claim against Harriet A. Trubee, the principal respondent. She bases her prayer for relief solely on the ground that when the deed of Stephen H. Alden was given to Mrs. Trubee in October, 1873, it was expressly agreed between the parties to the deed, both by parol and in writing, that the grantee should receive the deed in trust for the benefit of the grantor, and should re-convey the property to him or his appointee on demand; which Mrs. Trubee subsequently refused to do.
The Superior Court has found all these allegations…
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