Musgrove v. French

SIMPSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree in equity in favor of the complainant, French. The second amendment to the bill made an issue between appellee French and appellant William H. Clapp, Jr.

The facts presented by the pleadings and evidence, although some are irrelevant to the stated issue, disclose the following: Complainant French bought the mineral rights to a forty-acre tract of land described in the complaint from one Mus-grove, who executed to the complainant a warranty deed thereto. Subsequently complainant discovered that Musgrove, at one time a respondent to the bill, had…