Spring v. Spring

I. The plaintiff’s action is predicated on that form of resulting trust involved and defined in Cotton v. Wood, 25 Iowa 43, and which was briefly stated therein as follows:

“Where, upon the purchase of property, the consideration is paid by one, and the legal title conveyed to another, a resulting trust is thereby raised, and the person named in the deed will hold the property as trustee of the party paying the consideration. ’ ’

The foregoing pronouncement has been followed and elaborated in a long line of our casos, a few of which are. the following : Freeborn v. Servis, 182 Iowa 1350; In re…