Ammonette v. Black
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Nevada Chancery Court. Joel D. Conway, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. In 1890 Rebecca Ammonette was the owner of certain lands lying partly in Hempstead and partly in Nevada counties.
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Appeal from Nevada Chancery Court. Joel D. Conway, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. In 1890 Rebecca Ammonette was the owner of certain lands lying partly in Hempstead and partly in Nevada counties. In 1890 she conveyed by two deeds these lands to her'son, B. F. Ammonette, Sr. Mrs. Ammonette died in 1891, and her son died in 1898. He left a will by which he devised the lands in question to his niece, Mary E. Black, a granddaughter of Mrs. Ammonette, and to Annie Pearl Black, a daughter of Mary E. Black. In January, 1901, B. F. Ammonette, Jr., a grandson of Mrs. Ammonette and a nephew of B. F.…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is an appeal from a judgment refusing to declare that certain lands conveyed to B. F. Ammonette, Sr., by his mother, and which he afterwards devised to the defendants, were held by the said Ammonette under a trust for the benefit of plaintiff.
Counsel for appellee contends that, admitting the facts alleged by plaintiff to be true; yet under our statute, which provides that all declarations of trust shall be proved by some writing or else be void, no trust can arise in this case, for there was no writing. Sand. & H. Dig., § 3480. But the statute in…
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