Jones v. Cowles
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Macon. Heard before the Hon. James B. Clark. This bill was filed by Moses Jones against Thomas M. Cowles, Robert J. Ware, and Arnold Seales, setting up an equitable estoppel against said Cowles, and praying that he might be perpetually enjoined from the further prosecution of a suit at law for the recovery of a certain tract of land, which he had sold by parol to said Ware, who sold to said Seales, who sold to complainant.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Macon. Heard before the Hon. James B. Clark. This bill was filed by Moses Jones against Thomas M. Cowles, Robert J. Ware, and Arnold Seales, setting up an equitable estoppel against said Cowles, and praying that he might be perpetually enjoined from the further prosecution of a suit at law for the recovery of a certain tract of land, which he had sold by parol to said Ware, who sold to said Seales, who sold to complainant. The allegations of the bill and answer are stated at sufficient length in the opinion of the court. On the coming in of the answer, a…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
—The object of the bill is, to prevent Cowles from asserting his legal title to certain lands (which, it is alleged, he sold to Robert J. Ware, and which were sold by him to Arnold Seales, and by Seales to the complainant Jones) on the ground, that he has placed him-' self in a position which, in equity, estops him from the assertion of such title against the appellant, Jones.
The charge is, that Seales purchased of Ware certain lands, including the lands subsequently sold to the complainant, for *614the sum of four thousand dollars, for which he gave his notes and received a bond for titles from…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Read v. WalkerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1850
- Ware v. CowlesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1854
- McDowell v. GrahamCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1835
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