Brunson v. Sports

James M. Brailsford, Jr., Acting Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Common Pleas Court for Williamsburg County impressing a trust, for the benefit of respondents, upon a tract of land to which appellant has legal title.

The land in question was conveyed to Ida Dukes West by J. F. Montgomery on October 5, 1929, and was by her conveyed to R. A. Dukes, the appellant, on December 31, 1951. Mrs. West died on June 10, 1955, and this action was commenced by respondents in May of 1956.

The genesis of the controversy was the administration by Mrs. West of the estate of Corinne…