GRAGG v. PRUITT

GRAGG v. PRUITT
1936 OK 843
65 P.2d 1006
179 Okla. 382
Case Number: 25239
Decided: 12/22/1936
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

GRAGG
v.
PRUITT

Syllabus

¶0 TRUSTS - Resulting Trusts - Accounting Properly Required.
When a resulting trust has been judicially determined, it is proper to require a just accounting.

Appeal from District Court, Seminole County; Geo. C. Crump, Judge.

Action by Freelin Pruitt, a minor, by his joint guardian, G.L. Sandlin and another, against C.E. Gragg et al. From a judgment requiring an accounting by defendants, who held property in trust for plaintiff, the defendants appeal. Affirmed.

W.A. Barnett, R.M. Cavanaugh, and Norvell & Norvell, for plaintiffs in error.
Edgar A. deMueles, guardian an litem, and Biggers & Biggers, for defendants in error.

WELCH, J.

¶1 This is a companion case to No. 23764, this day decided.

¶2 179 Okla. 369, 65 P.2d 994. In that case this court affirmed the judgment of the trial court holding that defendants held in trust for the plaintiffs a certain interest in a producing oil and gas lease. Following that determination in that case in the trial court, the trial court required the defendants to account to the plaintiffs, and from that judgment and accounting the defendants prosecute this separate appeal to this court.

¶3 It was stipulated herein that a determination of this appeal should follow the determination by this court in cause No. 23764, wherein the existence of the trust was in controversy.

¶4 By reason of the stipulation, and on account of our determination of the other case, the judgment here appealed from is affirmed.