Smith v. Smith
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This was a bill in equity brought on June 20, 1936, by a mother against her son to have a resulting trust decreed in her favor as to real estate purchased in the son’s name on June 18,1921. She averred that she purchased the property with her funds, but title was taken in the name of her son at the request of her husband, who died in January, 1936. She did not allege in her bill that she did not know of the title being taken in her son’s name nor that she had not consented to its being done.
The defendant in his answer denied that the real estate in question had been purchased by…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Staib v. HayesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Strimpfler v. RobertsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1852
- Appeal of CrossSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1881