Milner v. Hyland

Best, C.

The appellee, who was the plaintiff, alleged substantially in her complaint, that, on the 24th day of September, 1856, she placed in the hands of her husband, James Hyland, $5,000, with a part of which he promised to purchase for her a house and lot in Rockport, Spencer county, Indiana; that, in pursuance of said undertaking, he did, on said day, purchase said property and pay for it with $2,000 of said money, but, in violation of his agree*459ment, and in fraud of her rights, took an absolute conveyance of said property in his own name, without her knowledge or consent; that she did not…