McQuillan v. Ayer

(after stating the facts). Broadly, it is the claim of the complainant that the use of the word “trustee” after the name Edmund M. Spalding, in the patent to him from the government, was sufficient to put an intending purchaser upon inquiry as to the nature of the trust under which said lands were held by Spalding, and that the defendant, having failed to show that either he or his grantors made any such inquiry, should be held to hold said lands as to the one-tenth owned by complainant under the trust as they were held by Spalding. A large number of authorities are cited in support of this…