Adams v. Ketchum

This was a bill in equity asking that the defendant be decreed to hold certain real estate and government bonds in trust for the plaintiffs and that she be ordered by the Court to Convey the real estate and to transfer and deliver the bonds to the plaintiff’s.

The case came to this court on appeal from a decree dismissing the bill.

It will be helpful to review the admitted facts, as they appear in chronological order, covering a long period of time, as well as a concise summary of the testimony of witnesses pertinent to the main issue in the case.

On January 16, 1883, Charles W. Clayton, the…