Bendean v. Moody

The defendant Dell J. Moody appeals from an interlocutory judgment of Supreme Court, entered on the decision of an official referee, adjudging that appellant is trustee of a resulting trust, and required to account for the rents, issues and profits, as well as the proceeds of the sale, of a certain twenty-eight-acre parcel of oil land.

The plaintiff and defendants, all the parties to this action, are the children of James S. and Maggie C. Moody. As a result of certain conveyances Maggie C. Moody in 1888 became the owner of twenty-eight acres of oil land located in McKean county, in the State…