Eaton v. Cook

The Chancello».

The complainant files his bill to establish as against the defendant, Dr. Lewis C. Cook, his step-father, and in favor of himself and the defendants, James A. Eaton, his brother, and Silas P. Cook, his half-brother, a trust as to a sum of money, in the bill alleged to be $10,000, but which appears in fact to be $8500. He alleges that this money was placed in the hands of his step-father by the complainant’s grandmother, Mary A. Hall, in 1855, in trust for her daughter ? Janet Cook, the complainant’s mother, then the wife of the defendant, Lewis C. Cook, and her children, to use…