Wayne v. Fouts
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM HAMILTON. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hamilton County. T. M. McConnell, Cb.
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, J.
This cause involves questions of equitable conversion of realty into personalty, and of equitable re-conversion of tbe same personalty into its original form as realty.
No doctrine, within its proper scope, is more *148firmly fixed in the jurisprudence of England and America than that of equitable conversion, by which, under certain circumstances, realty is regarded in equity as personalty, and personalty as realty. It is founded on the maxim: “Equity regards that as done which ought to be done.” Through this doctrine, Courts of equity treat as land, money directed to be invested in land, and as…
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