Hughes

This is an appeal from a judgment in the plaintiff’s favor in an action wherein the present plaintiff’s predecessor in interest sought to impress a trust in his favor as to several tracts of land lying in what is known as the Sutter Basin, in the county of Sutter, state of California. The particular tract of land as to the proceeds of which the judgment was in plaintiff’s favor was known and is described in the record herein as the “Wilcoxson Point ranch,” consisting of approximately two thousand six hundred acres of land, and was originally owned by one Jackson Wilcoxson, and upon his death, in the early eighties, became the property of the Wilcoxson Estate. The present plaintiff’s predecessor in interest, Joseph W. Hughes, was one of the heirs of said estate, his mother having been a sister of Jackson Wilcoxson, but his interest therein derived from this source was comparatively small, being only a one-ninetieth interest therein. Joseph W. Hughes was in those years an attorney at law, in active practice in the city of Sacramento. He was not, however, the attorney for the estate or any of its heirs other than himself, but at times, and as a matter of accommodation, looked after…