FAVRE v. AUSTIN

77-330.

361 So.2d 109 (1978)

Lands Described in Bill and Larry FAVRE et al. v. Wilmer AUSTIN and Christine Austin, husband and wife and Estelle A. Favre, a widow.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Oglesby of Oglesby & Butcher, Mobile, for appellants.

John A. Courtney, Mobile, for appellees.


JONES, Justice.

The issue is: Where one party pays the purchase price for land and takes title jointly in the name of himself and others, in the absence of evidence of an intention of payor to make a beneficial gift of an undivided interest in the property to the other persons, will the other grantees be regarded as holding their interest upon a resulting trust for the payor? Or, stated in the context of the holding below: Did the trial court err in declaring, in...

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