Reaves v. Coffman
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Clay Chancery Court; Edward D. Robertson, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This was an action in equity commenced on the 29th day of November, 1905, by M. R. Coffman and J. M. Gramling, administrators of the estate of M. C. Gramling, deceased, as plaintiffs ■against D. Mr Reaves and Mollie C. Reaves as defendants.
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Appeal from Clay Chancery Court; Edward D. Robertson, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This was an action in equity commenced on the 29th day of November, 1905, by M. R. Coffman and J. M. Gramling, administrators of the estate of M. C. Gramling, deceased, as plaintiffs ■against D. Mr Reaves and Mollie C. Reaves as defendants. Several amended complaints were afterwards filed, and finally E: E. Graves and Susie Graves, his wife, and Edgar Graves and Tillie Graves, his wife, who had purchased the property since the institution of the action, were also made parties defendant. M. R. Coffman and…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts.) It is a well settled principle of equity that trust funds wrongfully converted may be followed into other property as long and as far as they can be identified. Dyer v. Jacoway, 42 Ark. 186. But we do not think that the testimony establishes that the lots in question in the present case were purchased .with the funds belonging to the minors’ estate. The testimony adduced by the defendants shows that the lots in question, were given to the defendant, Mollie C. Reaves, in 1900 by -her father, Robert H. Krantz, and that he afterwards, on the 3d day of…
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