Elmore
Elmore v. Elmore
Opinion
Lead Opinion
McFarland, J.
The court below rendered an ordinary money judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant for the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars, together with costs; and the defendant appealed from the judgment and from an order made denying his motion for a new trial.
We think that the judgment must be reversed and a *518 new trial ordered, because neither the complaint nor the findings sustain the judgment entered; the cause of action, if any, established by the findings is wholly different from the one averred in the complaint; the allegata and the probata do not agree.
It is averred in the complaint that the deceased,. Sarah F. Elmore, was the wife of the appellant; that during her lifetime and during the coverture she received certain property from the estates of her deceased parents, which was mostly in the form of money; that she furnished this money to the appellant as her agent and trustee to purchase lands and some personal property for her; that, in pursuance of such trust, he did purchase large tracts of land and improved the same with her said money, which said lands so purchased are specifically described in the complaint; that he took the conveyances of…