Brindley v. Brindley
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Morgan Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Wert. Bill by Mrs. A. L. Brindley against C. V. Brindley to enforce a trust in land. From a decree overruling demurrers to the bill respondent appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
(1, 2) The substance and effect of the averments of the bill in this cause is that complainant executed and delivered to defendant a conveyance of her land upon the sole consideration of defendant’s oral promise that he would maintain and support complainant, during the remainder of her life; that defendant has wholly failed to perform his promise; that he has ■converted the land into money and the money into other land which he holds. The special prayer of the bill is that a trust be declared; that the value of the land that was complainant’s be realized out of the land into which it has…
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