Gibson v. Decius

Citations

• 82 Ill. 304

Syllabus

<p>Trust—promise to pay money when land is sold. Where land is conveyed by a client to his attorney, for fees in a suit then pending, and afterwards other attorneys are empl03red, and assist in the management of the case, even if the one to whom the land is conveyed employs them, and tells them he has received a conveyance of land for_ fees, and that he will pay their fees when he sells the land, such facts would not make him a trustee of the land for the joint benefit of all, or entitle the others to a partition of the land, or any other relief in a court of equity, whatever might he their rights in a suit at law.</p>