McPherrin v. Fair

delivered'the opinion of the court:

McPherrin obtained from the Westinghouse Company a deed to certain land in the possession of Fair, and to which the latter had a tax title. Before recording the deed, McPherrin changed the name of the grantee from his own to the name of one Jackson, and changed the expressed consideration of $50.00 to $250.00. Thereafter, he caused a conveyance of the land to be made from Jackson to Mail, in whom the apparent title reposed at the commencement of the action in the district court. In justice to Mr. Mail, it should be said that he had no knowledge of the…