Fowler v. Morrow

THOMAS, Justice.

The bill is for specific performance in order to perfect title to a small tract of land.

The controversy has arisen over two contracts or conveyances of the land by grantors, who were relatives of respective grantees. There are decisions to the effect that courts of equity in a proper case favor the enforcing of contracts which amount to family settlements touching properties held in common. Betts v. Ward, 196 Ala. 248, 72 So. 110. Such is not the case here presented where relatives conveyed lands founded upon different considerations.

The record contains much evidence as to the…