Thames v. Holcomb

Mrs. Fannye Holcomb Thames and others, by their bill of complaint against Mrs. Clyde D. Holcomb and others, the heirs-at-law of Clyde D. Holcomb, deceased, sought to have themselves declared to be the owners of an eight-ninths interest in one hundred and eighty acres of land, as described therein, by reason of a trust relationship between them and the deceased.

The answer of the defendants denied the material allegations of the bill, and pled specially the provisions of Sections 264 (c) and 269, Code of 1942, of the Statute of Frauds, and Sections 709, 710, 711, 718, 722, 743, and 746 Code of…