Cross v. Janes

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Cumberland county dismissing for want of equity appellant’s bill, filed to the March, 1926, term of court, seeking to reform a certain deed, to set aside another deed as a cloud upon appellant’s title, and praying for a writ of assistance for the purpose of placing appellant in possession of approximately twenty-five acres of land situated in that county.

The material facts disclosed by the proof are, that in June, 1889, John Gray and his wife, Elizabeth, for a consideration of $250, conveyed the property here involved by quit-claim deed,…