Stephens v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.

This was a bill filed November 18, 1910, in the circuit court of St. Clair county, for the partition of about twenty-three acres of land in that county, involving the question as to whether a resulting trust existed from the purchase of said real estate. After a hearing before the master the court sustained a portion of his findings and overruled the remainder and entered a decree dismissing the bill for want of equity. From that decree M. M. Stephens has appealed to this court.

In 1898 an electric road was constructed connecting East St. Louis and Belleville, running along the turnpike road.…