Kalmia Realty & Ins. v. Hardy

This is a suit in equity wherein the appellee seeks to cancel a claim of the appellant to real property, which the appellee alleges is a cloud on his title thereto. The case was tried on bill, answer, and proof, and there was a decree in accordance with the prayer of the appellee’s bill of complaint. The essential facts disclosed by the pleadings and the evidence are, in substance, as follows: The property was owned by, and in'the possession of, Russell, who conveyed it, for a valuable consideration, to the appellee in June, 1928; but the deed from Russell to the appellee thereto was not…