Mercantile Finance Corporation of Alabama v. Scruggs

BROWN, -Justice.

“It Is a plain principle of justice, of right, and of law, that a man can not accept the benefits, and reject the burdens of a transaction.” Goodman v. Winter, 64 Ala. 410, 434, 38 Am. Rep. 13. The doctrine of estoppels in pais is not peculiar to proceedings in equity, but is cognizable by a court of law; if specially pleaded. Davis et al. v. Williams et al., 130 Ala. 530, 30 So. 488, 54 L. R. A. 749, 89 Am. St. Rep. 55; 10 R. C. L. 841, § 147; 21 C. J. 1241, § 248; Wells v. Parker, 200 Ala. 166, 75 So. 914; Millitello v. B. F. Roden Grocery Co., 190 Ala. 675, 678, 67 So. 420;…