Doran v. Doran

Holding

The court held that an express trust for real property requires creation by a written instrument and that the trial court's findings on the real property claim were supported by the evidence, but that a trust for personal property may be proven by parol evidence and that the decedent’s act of directing the return of funds constituted a revocation of any potential gift causa mortis, requiring the defendant to hold the money in trust for the decedent’s estate.