Evans v. Summerlin
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange county. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief-Justice
delivered the opinion of the court:
Summerlin filed his bill against John Evans, the husband of the late Elizabeth Evans, and against Erank Evans and others, children and heirs at law of the deceased, alleging that on the first day of November, 1873, he purchased from Elizabeth Evans a tract of land containing about eighty acres in Orange county then owned by her as her separate property ; that he paid her $2,600 for the land, and she and her said husband attempted to execute a deed of conveyance to him, and did execute and deliver to him a paper purporting to be a deed of…
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