Wilmington Furniture Co. v. Cole

The three primary and determinative questions of law presented by the appeal are:

1. Was there competent evidence of a parol trust?

2. Was such trust abandoned and the title to the property revested in Henderson Cole prior to his death?

3. Is the plaintiff precluded by the principle of estoppel from claiming title to the property?

The various methods of creating trusts were first epitomized in Wood v. Cherry, 73 N. C., 110. This case is the original ancestor of numerous offspring disclosed by subsequent decisions. However, the ancestor in clarity of concept and expression is still the peer of any…