Thompson v. . Davis

Tbe plaintiff brought this action to wind up the affairs of a partnership and to establish and enforce a parol trust with respect to certain lands held by defendants E. P. Davis and his wife, Eva W. Davis, by an absolute or fee simple deed of bargain and sale. Matters relating to the partnership and partnership accounting were referred, and are not involved in this appeal. The issue as to the parol trust went to the jury, and the present appeal is concerned with this phase of the case alone. The record is voluminous, and to conserve space we must content ourselves with summarizing such…