Brown v. Brown

The bill of the complainants below, and the several cross-bills, were designed in effect to have the appellant specifically perform a parol agreement to assign in trust, for the benefit of complainant and certain other creditors of appellant, his interest in the estate of his father-in-law, Hosea F. Clark, deceased, given by his will.

In the pleadings filed, and from the proofs taken in the cause, it appears that in the year 1877 the appellant, Brown, was indebted to the complainant, and to William M. Force and others for money which he, acting as their attorney, had collected for *652them and…