SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION v. MEECH

No. 191.

169 U.S. 398 (1898)

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION v. MEECH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 28, 1898.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank W. Hackett for appellant.

Mr. Franklin H. Mackey for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The legal title to this property passed by the conveyance in 1885 to Mrs. Avery. She died without will. Prima facie, therefore, the title then passed to her heirs, the appellees. The plaintiff insists that in fact the purchase price was paid by Mr. Avery and paid under an oral agreement, whereby a resulting trust was created which changed...

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