Bodine v. Edwards

¶1The revised statutes have put an end to resulting trusts, arising from the payment of the purchase money by one person and taking the conveyance in the name of another, so far as relates to any trust in favor of the person who voluntarily pays the consideration for such a conveyance. The allegation in this bill that the daughters hold the property in question in trust for their father cannot be sustained, even by showing that the complainants’ debt was contracted before this conveyance to the daughters was made, and that the father was then insolvent; as that would not raise a trust in his favor. To reach the property in the hands of the daughters, it is necessary to charge in the bill the circumstances which would render the transaction fraudulent as against the creditors of the father; so as to raise a trust in favor of such creditors, under the fifty-second section of the article of the revised statutes relative to uses and trusts. (1 R. S. 728.) The whole equity of this bill, so far as relates to the daughters, is denied by their affidavit. The motion for a receiver as to them must therefore be denied; but without prejudice to the right of the complainants to renew their application upon an amended bill.