Legal Opinion

Robbins v. Robbins

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided May 26, 1914Published

Error to Jackson Circuit Court. — No». Walter A 4 Powell, Judge. (1) The plaintiff must establish, beyond reasonable doubt the facts necessary to constitute a resulting trust.

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Error to Jackson Circuit Court. — No». Walter A 4 Powell, Judge. (1) The plaintiff must establish, beyond reasonable doubt the facts necessary to constitute a resulting trust. Beed v. Sperry, 193 Mo. 173; Brinkman v. Sunken, 174 Mo. 715; Burdette v. May, 100 Mo. 16. That plaintiff has not established beyond a reasonable donbt and that she has not established by the preponderance of the evidence and that she has brought forth no evidence whatsoever of a direct nature that any of her earnings were invested in the real estate cannot be controverted. We call attention to the language of the…

1Opinion of the Court

BROWN, J. —

Action to establish resulting trust in real estate. Prona a judgment for plaintiff in the circuit court of Jackson county defendant prosecutes his writ of error to this court.

It is alleged in plaintiff’s petition that she and defendant were husband and wife from July 27, 1887, to July 16,1906', a period of nineteen years, at the end of which time they were divorced. That neither of them possessed any property of consequence at the time of their marriage, nor did they accumulate anything until about the year 1889, when they located in Kansas City, Missouri, and the plaintiff began…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Burdett v. MaySupreme Court of Missouri · 1889
  2. Crawford v. JonesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1901
  3. Brinkman v. SunkenSupreme Court of Missouri · 1903
  4. Reed v. SperrySupreme Court of Missouri · 1906

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