Sourse v. Marshall

This was a suit brought by Marshall, the appellee, to reform the declaration of a trust in a deed made by one John Morgan to three of the appellants, George Sourse, Isaac Goodin, and Jacob Sourse. It is averred that Morgan originally made the deed to these three persons, as “ trustees of a meeting-house and burying-ground for the use of the neighborhood of the county of Huntington,” etc. But that, by the collusion of the appellants, said deed had been destroyed, mutilated, and interlined, and an altered, forged, and counterfeit deed put on record, which reads, as to the point in dispute^ as…