Godfrey v. E. P. Burton Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before DantzeER, J., Colleton, February, 1910. ' Action by William Godfrey, John W. Maynard and James P. Maynard against E. P. Burton Lumber Company. • Plaintiffs appeal. cite: Plaintiff is entitled to any relief the facts warrant: 2 Pom. Eq. Jur., sec. 879; 1 Rich. L. 106; 29 Ency. 676; 9 L. R. A. 607; 13 Pet. 27. Plaintiff is entitled to abatement: 2 Hill 657. cite: What party desiring rescission must do: 192 U. S. 242; 141 U. S. 432; 2 Pom. Eq. Jur. 897; 74 Am.
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Before DantzeER, J., Colleton, February, 1910. ' Action by William Godfrey, John W. Maynard and James P. Maynard against E. P. Burton Lumber Company. • Plaintiffs appeal. cite: Plaintiff is entitled to any relief the facts warrant: 2 Pom. Eq. Jur., sec. 879; 1 Rich. L. 106; 29 Ency. 676; 9 L. R. A. 607; 13 Pet. 27. Plaintiff is entitled to abatement: 2 Hill 657. cite: What party desiring rescission must do: 192 U. S. 242; 141 U. S. 432; 2 Pom. Eq. Jur. 897; 74 Am. Dec. 662; 66 Fed. 185; 1 Rich. L. 106; 1 Rich. Eq. 404; 57 S. C. 393. Misrepresentation and fraud: 2 Hill 658; 2 Bail. 269; 13 S.…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
The opinion in this case was filed on September 22, 1910, but held up on petition for rehearing until
March 15, 1911. The opinion of the Court was delivered by It will not be necessary, to consider the exceptions in detail, as the questions presented by them, are dependent upon a few well settled principles of law and equity.
When negotiations for the sale of land, culminated in an executed contract, by delivery of the deed, and payment of the purchase money in full, and the purchaser thereafter discovers, that there is an outstanding paramount title to a part of the land, he may elect…
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