Benbow v. Benbow

This is an appeal from a decree in which the Trustee of lands, who denied the trust and withheld possession from his cestui que trust until compelled by a proceeding in equity to acknowledge it in the terms alleged by the cestui que trust, is allowed reimbursement of certain money spent by the Trustee for improvements, as he claims, upon the lands and interest upon the amounts so expended and declaring the same to be a lien upon the lands and ordering the same sold to satisfy the lien so declared to exist. That the Trustee denied the existence of the trust is evidenced by the bill and answer.

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