Moyse v. Howie

Citations

• 98 Miss. 30
• 53 So. 402

Syllabus

<p>1. Trust. Trustee. Finding of chancellor.</p> <p>A decree on controverted facts is analogous to the verdict of a jury and will not be reversed on appeal unless manifestly wrong.</p> <p>2. Trust. Trustees. Conveyance.</p> <p>Where a corporation conveyed its property to a trustee without fraud, for the benefit of all parties interested in said corporation, and the trustee conveyed the property to. a third party without authority so to do, and said third party sold the same and received the proceeds; the third party was trustee in his own wrong and is liable to account for the price received.</p>