Rentoul v. Sweeney

The Chancellor.

The defense made to this bill is twofold. First, it is contended that the evidence shows that the defendant in taking the reconveyance from her sister, the complainant, of the twelve-acre tract and in her subsequent dealings with that property and its proceeds, acted solely in her own absolute right as a purchaser and owner and in no sense as a trustee or agent for her sister. But, second, if it be granted that the defendant was not an absolute purchaser from her sister, yet the latter is not entitled to the relief sought for the reason that on her own showing the conveyance by…