Brown v. Alexander

Citations

• 118 Miss. 848
• 79 So. 842

Syllabus

<p>1. Trusts. Resulting trust. Furnishing price of land.</p> <p>Where a mother gave money to her illegitimate son to purchase land, with the understanding that title to the land should inure to her benefit, and that he would execute a deed to her, and the mother lived with the son on the land before her death; and spent money in improving it; in such ease, the son held the land in trust for his mother, and at her death, she had not lost the right thereto on account of any laches on her part.</p> <p>2. Escheat. Interest of illegitimate child.</p> <p>Where a mother, at her death, left three children surviving her, one illegitimate and the other two legitimate, her property descended to each of her three children in equal parts under Code of 1906, section 1655, so providing, but upon the death of the illegitimate child, intestate, his one-third interest escheated to the state, the Code of 1906, section 1655 (Hemingway’s Code, section 1387) not providing for inheritance by legitimate from illegitimate children.</p>