Curd v. Brown
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Grundy Circuit Gourt. — Host. P. 0. Stepp, Judge. (1) An express trust is one created by words evincing an intention to create a trust. 27 Am. and Eng. Ency. of Law, pp. 6 and 25; Underbill on Trusts and Trustees, 12 and 18; Perry on Trusts (4 Ed.), secs. 2, 13 and 24; Eoster v. Eriede, 37 Mo. 36; Beaver v. Beaver, 15 Am. St. Eep. 531; Estate of Smith, 27 Am.
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Appeal from Grundy Circuit Gourt. — Host. P. 0. Stepp, Judge. (1) An express trust is one created by words evincing an intention to create a trust. 27 Am. and Eng. Ency. of Law, pp. 6 and 25; Underbill on Trusts and Trustees, 12 and 18; Perry on Trusts (4 Ed.), secs. 2, 13 and 24; Eoster v. Eriede, 37 Mo. 36; Beaver v. Beaver, 15 Am. St. Eep. 531; Estate of Smith, 27 Am. St. Eep. 644; Harney v. Dutclier, 15 Mo. 89; 2 Eapaljels Law Diet., 1296 and 1297. (2) An express trust must be proved by some writing signed by tbe party, or it will be void. E. S. 1889, secs. 5184 and 5186; "Woodford v.…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
The petition is in the following language:
“Plaintiff says that on the 26th day of February, 1891, Susie E. Curd, his wife, departed this life, seized, subject to right of plaintiff hereinafter stated, of the following land in Grundy county, Missouri, to wit: All of that part of block number four in James R. Merrill’s Second Addition to the town of Trenton, in said county, described in the following metes and bounds to wit: commencing at the south west corner of said block, thence east one hundred feet, thence north one hundred feet, thence west one hundred foot, thence south one hundred feet…
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