Court Opinion

ID: 6802299
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 18:43:07.09298+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:03:17.483161
License: Public Domain

WRIGHT, J.
The principle is, that where one pays the consideration for land, and the title is made to another, there results a trust in the land m favor of him who paid the money by implication of law, becausehe is deemed the real purchaser; 5 O. 256 ; 4 Kint’s Com. 300. A prima facie exception to this rule is found, where the father pays the consideration, and the conveyance is to the child, which is held an advancement of the child unless it expressly appear the father did not intend it as such. If that appear, the child holds in trust; 2 Mad. Ch. 112; 2 John. Ch. 51; 11 John. 107; 5 O. 256. The case in hearing seems to us •within the general principle, not within the exception. The interest of the intestate in the trust estate, may be reached either by the heir or creditors.
340] * If the estate be a trust, it makes no difference that the debts were not contracted till after the trust was created. The interest of the cestui que trust continued till his death. We hold thisland subject to the debts, and decree accordingly, if the money is not paid, that the case go to a master to sell.