Dollar Savings Fund & Trust Co. v. Union Trust Co.

Citations

• 223 Pa. 286
• 72 A. 558
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 524

Syllabus

<p>Trusts and trustees — Parol trust — Evidence—Equity—Findings of fact.</p> <p>A bill in equity to establish a parol trust in stocks of a corporation can only be sustained by clear, explicit and unequivocal proof. The question before the court in such a case is as to the sufficiency of the evidence to satisfy the mind and conscience of the chancellor that a trust existed, and not what a jury might have found from it if licensed to pass upon it.</p>