Chance v. Chapman
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Saffold Berney. Bill by Dilla Reed, revived in the name of Dilla Chance, as executrix, against John C. Chapman, to cancel certain conveyances as a cloud upon title. From a decree for respondent, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The bill in this cause was filed by Dilla Reed, who died leaving a last will devising all her property to appellant, in whose name a revivor was regularly had, and who now prosecutes this appeal. The purpose of the bill was to cancel four certain conveyances, as a cloud upon complainant’s title, on the ground that they had been obtained “by fraud or grossly inadequate consideration.”(1) Mr. Pomeroy thus states the rule of gross inadequacy amounting to fraud (Eq. Jur. vol. 2, § 927) : “Although the actual cases in which a contract or conveyance has been canceled on account of gross inadequacy…
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