Jones v. Van Doren
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM - THE CIRCUIT COURT OF, THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. • This was a bill of equity, filed May 18, 1883, by Sarah M. Jones, a citizen of Pennsylvania, against Matilda A. Yan Doren, a citizen of Indiana, and Samuel J. Jones and Samuel' J. Glover, -citizens of Illinois.' The original bill alleged that Robert H. Jones died intestate in April, 1863, leaving the plaintiff, his widow, and the defendant Jones, his son and only, heir at law, and seized…
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APPEAL FROM - THE CIRCUIT COURT OF, THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. • This was a bill of equity, filed May 18, 1883, by Sarah M. Jones, a citizen of Pennsylvania, against Matilda A. Yan Doren, a citizen of Indiana, and Samuel J. Jones and Samuel' J. Glover, -citizens of Illinois.' The original bill alleged that Robert H. Jones died intestate in April, 1863, leaving the plaintiff, his widow, and the defendant Jones, his son and only, heir at law, and seized in fee of one fourth undivided part of certain land described, in Minnesota; that the plaintiff became entitled to a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The only difference between the original and amended bills is that the first alleges that the defendant Jones took the conveyance of the plaintiff’s right of dower upon an express trust for her, whereas the second alleges that he procured the conveyance from her by fraudulent misrepresentations as to the nature of. the instrument, creating á trust by operation of law in her favor. The other facts alleged in .the two bills are substantially identical. Each bill proceeds upon the ground that the defendant Jones was a trustee for the plaintiff, and that the defendant Yan Doren, taking the land…
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