Corley v. Vizard
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Coosa County; Ray Rushton, Special Judge. BiR by W. J. Corley against 'William Vizard and others to require respondents to convey a one-half undivided-interest in the mineral right in certain lands or to cancel deed for fraud. From a decree dismissing the bill and denying relief, complainant appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Coosa County; Ray Rushton, Special Judge. BiR by W. J. Corley against 'William Vizard and others to require respondents to convey a one-half undivided-interest in the mineral right in certain lands or to cancel deed for fraud. From a decree dismissing the bill and denying relief, complainant appeals. A person ignorant of the law, dealing with a person knowing the law, who knows the other party to be ignorant of the law, who is misled by a false statement of the law, has had a fraud perpetrated upon him. Townsend & Milliken v. Cowles, 31 Ala. 436. The person is not…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The purport of the bill is that complainant was to reserve in the deed to respondents mineral interests in the lands conveyed, which interest was excepted from the sale by a prior or contemporaneous verbal agreement. It is without dispute that the interests so conveyed were purposely inserted in the deeds by agreement of the parties to this suit. Complainant insists that such interests were included in the deeds in reliance upon the agreement of respondents’ agent, to the effect that respondent would re-convey to him such reserved interests. This agreement being prior to, or contemporaneous…
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