Dogan, Sheriff v. Cooley

Griffith, J.,

delivered a concurring opinion.

In concurring in the decree of reversal, and in agreeing that the chancellor was in error in sustaining appellee’s bill upon the theory of a resulting trust, I prefer to go no further than to stand upon what is the equity, or rather the want of equity, in the particular case under its specific facts. Here the complainant, the wife, frankly admits that she had the title and the record debt for the balance of the purchase money placed in the name of her husband, so that none of this should show up against her in the mercantile business which she was…