Barnard v. . Hawks’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Even had this been land, and the defendants had paid the purchase money and taken the title under a parol agreement to hold it for the plaintiff, subject to his right to repay the purchase money, the Court upon sufficient testimony would have declared (440) them trustees. This was substantially decided in Cohn v. Chapman 62 N.C. 92 , 93 Am. Dec., 600 , in which it was held, upon the principle of trust, that such an agreement was not within the statute of frauds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Avery v. . Stewart