Hugh K. Gale Post No. 2182 Veterans of Foreign Wars v. Norris

BRICE, Chief Justice.

This is an action in equity instituted to compel the appellant (defendant) as a trustee ex maleficio to “pass the title” of certain land to plaintiff, which plaintiff alleges was bought by defendant in trust for it. From a decree for plaintiff this appeal is prosecuted. The substance of the material facts found by the trial court, or admitted in the pleadings, is as follows:

The plaintiff is a duly organized and existing post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, numbered 2182, with headquarters in Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico. Appellant (defendant) was at all…