Harrison v. Cruse

Ed. F. MoFaddin, Associate Justice.

This appeal results from the unsuccessful effort of the appellant, Mr. Harrison, to have a resulting trust impressed on ■certain real and personal property. The appellees (defendants below) constitute the administrator and heirs at law of Mrs. Bess Yates, who died intestate on ■September 28, 1959, with the legal title to all of the properties in her name.

The defendants, in addition to pleading the “Dead Man’s Statute”1 (Section 2 of the Schedule of the Arkansas Constitution), also urged that Mr. Harrison had no interest in the properties; that there was no…