Hawkins v. Perry

CROCKETT, Justice.

This appeal challenges a decree impressing a trust upon realty in favor of the plaintiff.

In July 1943 LeRoy Hawkins, then a boy of 16, had been working and had saved $300. He was considering buying a car, but talked the matter over with defendant Alfred T. Perry, who was a minister and the plaintiff’s uncle. The latter advised him that it would be better to put his money in a certain house he knew was for sale, which could be used as a home and a part of which could be rented. After considering it for several days, the plaintiff told Mr. Perry that he would accept the…