Evans v. McKee

Citations

• 152 Pa. 89
• 25 A. 148
• 1892 Pa. LEXIS 1176

Syllabus

<p>Besulting trust — Trust ex maleficio — Evidence—Declarations.</p> <p>Where a son, acting lor his lather, the plaintiff in an execution, purchases real estate at a sheriff’s sale for an inadequate price, but pays the purchase money out ol his own pocket, and the father by his subsequent conduct shows that he had knowledge ol the whole transaction, the son will not be declared a trustee ex maleficio for the father or the father’s heirs.</p> <p>' In such a ease declarations made by the lather alter the sale, claiming the land as his own, are inadmissible as evidence of a resulting trust.</p>