Berry v. Brunson

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

Does the answer of the defendant set up a cause of action against the plaintiffs? After denying the allegations of the petition, the defendant seeks to set up and enforce an implied trust in her favor, arising from the payment, with her money, of a part of *529the purchase-price of the land. She alleges that she turned over to Jack Berry $250 to pay upon the purchase-price when the land was bought by him, relying upon Berry to take a deed thereto in her name, but that instead of taking the deed in her name he took the same to himself. She does not allege that…