Payne v. Simmons

232 Va. 379 (1986)

350 S.E.2d 637

3 VLR 1371

RUPERT C. PAYNE

v.

CARGEL E. SIMMONS, SR., ET AL.

Record No. 831245

Supreme Court of Virginia

November 26, 1986

Daniel M. O'Connell, Jr. (George M. Mayhugh; O'Connell & Mayhugh, P.C., on brief), for appellant.

Robin C. Gulick (Gary M. Pearson; Bain, Trundle, Gulick and Carson, on brief), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices

Judgment is reversed in a chancery suit by a seller of land seeking rescission of a deed obtained by fraud and where the consideration paid was so grossly inadequate as to shock the conscience of the court.

Plaintiff was deeded the…