Brown v. Doane
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Contracts. Vendor and purchaser. Fraud. Trusts. Evidence. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton superior court.
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Equity. Contracts. Vendor and purchaser. Fraud. Trusts. Evidence. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton superior court. March term, 1890. Mrs. Brown by her petition alleged, in brief, that about August 15, 1887, she executed a conveyance to E. A. Doane to sixty acres of land; that the conveyance was conditional as to five of the acres, and she received from Doane, at the same time she made the deed to him, a writing reciting that he had that day purchased from her her home plantation, to which she had made him a deed, and that ho agreed to pay her $200 without interest whenever she placed…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
Mrs. Brown, by warranty deed absolute in terms, expressing a consideration of $2,400 in hand paid, conveyed to Doane in fee simple, as one tract containing 60 acres more or less, parts of land lots Nos. 94 and 99 in the 14th district of Pulton county. Doane at the same time delivered to her his written obligation reciting that he had purchased her home plantation near Hapeville, to which she had made him a deed, and proceeding as follows:
“I hereby agree and bind myself to pay to Mrs. Sudie C. Brown the sum of $200 without interest, whenever she produces and places in…
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