McSwain v. Griffin

Martha McSwain and others, complainants, filed their bill of complaint in the Chancery Court of Perry County against Dandy Griffin, Jr., defendant, seeking to establish a constructive or resulting trust in their favor in and to a 40-acre tract of land purchased by the defendant from the State of Mississippi under a forfeited tax land patent dated March 30, 1939. The complainants in their bill alleged that the forfeited tax land patent was procured by the defendant by fraud and misrepresentation of the true facts concerning the ownership of the 40-acre tract of land at the time of the sale of…