LEONARD v. COUNTS

Record No. 781558.

272 S.E.2d 190 (1980)

Robert L. LEONARD et al. v. H. Lyman COUNTS.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 26, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis L. Godfrey, Dennis E. Jones, Lebanon (Jones & Godfrey, Lebanon, on brief), for appellants.

Charles E. Schelin, Lebanon (Browning, Morefield, Schelin, Cody & Arrington, P.C., Lebanon, on brief), for appellee.

Before I'ANSON, C. J., and CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, POSS, COMPTON and THOMPSON, JJ.


COCHRAN, Justice.

H. Lyman Counts filed a bill of complaint in the trial court against Robert L. Leonard and Betty J. Leonard, his wife, to establish a constructive trust in a parcel of land and to require the Leonards to convey the parcel to him. After hearing the evidence ore tenus, the chancellor ruled that the Leonards held the parcel as constructive trustees for Counts, and by final decree entered August 1,...

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