Stretch v. Stretch

The Chancellor :

— J. M. Speer and J. & L. Whorley have presented a petition in this case asking that they be made parties defendant, with leave to make defence by demurrer, plea, or answer, and by cross-bill. The petition states that the bill is filed for the purpose of setting up a .resulting trust in favor of the wife of the defendant, Aaron Stretch, in a stock of drugs and other merchandise, then being retailed by the defendant in a store in Nashville. The ground upon which the equity of the bill rests is that the stock was bought by the defendant with funds held by him in trust for his…