Mulholland v. . York

The object of this action is to charge with a trust, in favor of the plaintiff, certain lands that had belonged to him, and were bought at a sheriff’s sale under execution, and again at a sale by his assignee in bankruptcy, by the defendant, under an arrangement that the plaintiff might redeem on repayment of the purchase money, the same being paid in full. The answer denies the alleged agreement; the existence and validity of any trust to be supported by parol proof, the repayment of the money, and sets up the statutes of limitations in bar. Issues were thereupon submitted to the jury who…