Ward v. Ward
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to compel a convejmnce of real estate and for an injunction; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and heard before Prentice, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. The facts are fully stated in the opinion. 1. Upon the facts we claim that there was a resulting trust in favor of the plaintiff.
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Suit to compel a convejmnce of real estate and for an injunction; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and heard before Prentice, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. The facts are fully stated in the opinion. 1. Upon the facts we claim that there was a resulting trust in favor of the plaintiff. Whenever property is purchased and the money paid by one person, and the deed taken in the name of another, a resulting trust arises in that other in favor of the person who paid the consideration. And it makes no difference whether it is…
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
In this case the plaintiff claims a judgment that the defendant convey his interest in the premises described in the complaint to her, or a decree vesting in her a title to the same. The Superior Court decided in favor of the defendant. The facts which it found and its conclusions thereon, together with the claims made by the parties on the trial, are set forth in the finding as follows:—■
“ The plaintiff and defendant are brother and sister, born in Ireland, aged sixty-five and sixty-seven years respectively, and never married. They came to this country together in 1854. The plaintiff has…
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