Troxel v. Bishop

How courts have described this case

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• holding donee received equitable title to house based on oral gift even if deed. did not effectively convey title to donee
• holding donee received equitable title to house based on oral gift even if deed did not effectively convey title to donee
• affirming summary judgment in appellee = s favor because the evidence established both a gift of property by deed and by oral gift
• present gift where summary-judgment evidence showed donor made immediate divesture of rights and investiture of rights to appellant a year before donor died
• “A resulting trust arises by operation of law when title is conveyed to one person but the purchase price of a portion thereof is paid by another.”
• “All dominion and control over the property must be released by the owner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).