Rakestraw v. Brogdon
Rakestraw v. Brogdon
Opinion of the Court
1. Compare the evidence with the charges in the bill, and it will appear at a glance, that the verdict is contrary to evidence. The evidence shows that the case made by the bill is not true; the verdict finds, in effect, that it is true. If conflict can exist it is here. Should it be said that the verdict is not to be applied to the averments of the bill, but to some case outside of the bill, the answer is, that proof of a case substantially different from the one alleged, whether the case proved be good or bad, will not warrant a recovery. Relief
2d. There can be no reasonable doubt that the difference between the bill and the evidence is essential. The bill makes a case of fraud which depends in no respect upon the intention of the complainant. The defendants are not put upon notice that his intention is, or can be, material to the trust sought to be established. But if the evidence embodies any trust at all, (which we do not decide, as it is dehors the bill,) the very life of the trust hangs on the complainant’s intention at the time he gave his consent for the testator to obtain a conveyance of the land, and take it in his own name. The object or purpose of that consent is a vital question, yet, neither the consent itself nor its object is alleged. Indeed, so far from being alleged, such a consent is inconsistent with the whole tenor of the bill, and is virtually denied. And still,, the complainant lias proved it, and seeks to rest his recovery upon the implied purpose for which it was given. Until that consent was given, there was no seed of any trust. It was then and thereby that the trust afterwards born with the deed, if any was born, had its conception. The complainant, previously, when paying for the land so much of the purchase money as he advanced, intended to take title to himself.
.Judgment reversed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Gainum T. Rakestraw, executors, in error v. William F. M. Brogdon, in error
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- Published