Haygood v. Manley

THOMAS, Justice.

The suit is in ejectment and the judgment was for the plaintiff.

Appellant’s statement of fact is that the defendant Marvin Haygood in December, 1935, agreed to purchase from the owners a tract of land which included what was represented to him to be Lot 3, Block 1, Brownlee Survey, pointed out to him to be situated at a certain place in Jefferson County, Alabama. He paid the sum of $16 as part payment, but there was no written contract of purchase executed for the transaction. After entry upon said property, the defendant discovered that the property appeared upon the record…