56 So. 314 | Miss. | 1911
We have most carefully examined the various briefs filed by the learned counsel for appellant, and the authorities therein cited, and we are unable to see any solid ground on which to rest the contentions of the appellant. The two cases chiefly relied on by appellant as being directly in point are Schumacker v. Draeger, 137 Wis. 618, 119 N. W. 305, and Johnston v. Jickling, 141 Iowa, 444, 119 N. W. 746. But both these cases were.
In the creation of a trust, as the authorities plainly show, English and American, the creator must make it, and can only make it 'contemporaneously with the creation of the trust, and that is our case. The grantor in this conveyance has fully, and explicitly, and in detail,, made manifest the trust by the language she has used in the conveyance. She attempted to create, or make, or manifest a trust. The grantees here did not create it, or make it, or manifest it. She created this trust in writing, to wit, by the conveyance, and she conld only create a valid trust by dealing with the conveyance which declared and manifested the trust in strict conformity with the provisions of section 4780, Code of 1906 (section 4230, Code of 1892), which is as follows: “Hereafter all declarations or creations of trusts or confidence' of or in any land shall be made and manifested by writing, signed by the party who declares or creates such trust,
Counsel for appellant confuse themselves in not apprehending clearly what is perfectly plain — that the deed of conveyance here is not simply a deed of conveyance, but that it expressly, explicitly and in the fullest detail declares and manifests the trust. This is too plain for disputation. Again, we are unable to .see any force in the suggestion of counsel that this is not a suit to enforce a trust. The direct and necessary effect of the suit, if successful, would be to enforce a trust manifested and made in writing, but which writing has not been dealt with in the only way which could make the trust effective. Affirmed.
Per Curiam. The above opinion is adopted as the opinion of the court, and for the reasons therein indicated the decree of the court below is affirmed.