Perry v. Perry
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill in equity to enforce a resulting trust.
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
The complainant brings this bill to enforce the execution of a trust in his favor. He alleges that on September 10,1856, he bargained for and purchased of John S. Harding a certain tract of land specifically described and set forth in the bill; that the same was conveyed by said Harding to William A. Perry, to hold in trust for this complainant “for a consideration of four hundred dollars in cash paid down and then furnished” by him, “and of three promissory notes of said William A. Perry, secured by a mortgage of said lot and buildings by said William A. Perry to said Harding;” that this…
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