Estate of Snook

The opinion in this case was destroyed in the great fire of 1906, hut the point decided being an important one, the syllabus above is now published, and the question is further elucidated in the following note:

CREATION OF TRUSTS IN LAND BY PAROL.

Classes and Kinds of Trusts in General.—By an express trust in land is meant one that is created by express agreement of the parties: Learned v. Tritch, 6 Colo. 433; Oberlender v. Butcher, 67 Neb. 410, 93 N. W. 764. In England, before the adoption of the statute of frauds in 1676, express trusts in land possessed the same force and validity when…