Love v. Taylor
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the southern district chancery court at Natchez; Hon. James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. The appellants filed their bill against Taylor and wife, and Wade and Watt, for- the purpose of procuring from Wade and Watt the legal title to the land in controversy, upon the following equity disclosed in their bill.
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On appeal from the southern district chancery court at Natchez; Hon. James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. The appellants filed their bill against Taylor and wife, and Wade and Watt, for- the purpose of procuring from Wade and Watt the legal title to the land in controversy, upon the following equity disclosed in their bill. That in 1828, Robert E. Love, the father of the appellants, deposited in the hands of Elizabeth McCulloch (now Taylor), a certain sum of money, with instructions to vest said money in the purchase of a tract of land in Wilkinson county, which is now in controversy, containing…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Handy
The first question presented in this case is, whether the appellants are entitled to have the lands in controversy subjected to a resulting trust in their favor, against the appellees Wade and Watt.
It appears by the pleadings and proofs, that in the year 1828, the father of the appellants placed in the hands of their aunt, Elizabeth McCulloch, who afterwards married one Taylor, a sum of money for the purpose of purchasing the tract of land in controversy, for the use and bénefit of the appellants; that she made the purchase, but took the deed in her own name; that she repeatedly declared that…
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