Wright v. Smith

SIMPSON, Justice.

This is a suit in equity for a declaratory judgment to construe a real estate deed and to determine the nature and extent of the estate conveyed the respective grantees..

The deed, omitting description and acknowledgements, reads:

“The State of Alabama

Marshall County

“Know All Men By These Presents:

“That we Stanley Brown and Eunice Brown, his wife, of Marshall County and State of Alabama, for and in consideration of the sum of Seventeen Hundred Dollars to us in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, and sold and by these presents do…