Strickland v. Strickland
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Houston County; H. A. Pearce, Judge. Bill by M. E. Strickland against C. G. Strickland and the Bank of Gordon to cancel a deed and mortgage or in the alternative to cancel the deed and redeem from the mortgage. From a decree overruling demurrers to the bill, respondents appeal.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Houston County; H. A. Pearce, Judge. Bill by M. E. Strickland against C. G. Strickland and the Bank of Gordon to cancel a deed and mortgage or in the alternative to cancel the deed and redeem from the mortgage. From a decree overruling demurrers to the bill, respondents appeal. The bill alleges the execution to C. G. Strickland by M. E. Strickland on August 31, 1917, of a warranty deed to 80 acres of land for an express consideration of $1,000. The allegation is that said deed or instrument was obtained by the said respondent G. G. Strickland, through an undue…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Complainant (appellee), M. E. Strickland, filed this bill against C. G. Strickland and the Bank of Gordon (appellants). Tire purpose of the bill is to set aside and cancel a deed, purporting to have been made by complainant to defendant C. G. Strickland, as having seen procured by undue influence exercised by the latter over the former, and to set aside and cancel, in so far as it affects complainant’s title, a later deed of mortgage made by defendant.C. G. Strickland to the bank, the averment as to that being that the bank, when it took its mortgage, had knowledge of the fraudulent…
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- Alexander v. GibsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1912
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