DORSEY v. STONE

[No. 83, October Term, 1950.]

197 Md. 220 (1951)

78 A.2d 757

DORSEY ET AL. v. STONE ET AL. EXECUTORS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 9, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linwood L. Clark for the appellants.

The Court declined to hear argument for the appellees.

James Thomas, on the brief, for the appellees.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.


MARKELL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing, on demurrer, on the ground of laches, a bill to establish, as "an implied, constructive trust", an express oral trust, invalid as such under the Statute of Frauds.

The bill alleges that: Plaintiffs' father, Walter B. Dorsey, purchased, with his own funds and subject to mortgages subsequently paid by him or out of his estate, four farms in St. Mary's County, which were...

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