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51 Tex. 540

Burdett v. Haley

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1879

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1879-07-01

Tried below before the Hon. X. B. Saunders. Giles H. Burdett, as administrator of his father, Jesse Burdett, deceased, sued defendant C. Q. Haley and others to try title and recover the league of land granted J. W. Carpenter, situated in Falls county. Defendants pleaded a general demurrer, which was sustained by the court. Plaintiff appealed. The petition was filed August, 1868.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently January 1931

2 state decisions

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Decided 1879-07-01

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Bonner, Associate Justice.

¶1It is a well-established principle, that, as a general rule, when the consideration is advanced by one party and the deed is taken in the name of another, a resulting trust arises in favor of him who advances the purchase-money.

¶2As between father and son, the presumption might arise that it was intended as an advancement to the son, rather than a resulting trust to the father; subject, however, to be rebutted by evidence of a different intention.

¶3In this case the pleadings expressly aver that the purchase was intended as a resulting trust in favor of the father and not as an advancement to the son, and negative any presumption of fraud in the transaction; and the son, who is the plaintiff, is by the record estopped from denying the same.

¶4This certainly, under the other allegations in the petition, constituted an equitable cause of action in the plaintiff which was good on demurrer.

¶5For the error in the court in sustaining the demurrer, the judgment below must be reversed and the cause remanded.

¶6Reversed and remanded.

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