Hudspeth v. Thomason
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Chancery Court of Barbour and Henry. Heard before Hon. B. B. Me Craw. Tbe appellee, Thomason, who was a non-resident and complainant in the court below, filed his bill against E. T. and Joel A. Hudspeth, the appellants, seeking to enforce a vendor’s lien on six hundred and thirty acres of land mentioned in the bill, and to have corrected certain misdescriptions in the deed therefor, which had been executed to him by E. T. Hudspeth, and prayed for general relief,…
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Appeal from Chancery Court of Barbour and Henry. Heard before Hon. B. B. Me Craw. Tbe appellee, Thomason, who was a non-resident and complainant in the court below, filed his bill against E. T. and Joel A. Hudspeth, the appellants, seeking to enforce a vendor’s lien on six hundred and thirty acres of land mentioned in the bill, and to have corrected certain misdescriptions in the deed therefor, which had been executed to him by E. T. Hudspeth, and prayed for general relief, &c. It appears from the bill and answers that appellee, in 1863, through his agent, one Edwards, purchased the lands…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, C. J.
This ease originated in the chancery court of Henry county, by a bill filed by the appellee as plaintiff, against the appellants as defendants. The objects of the bill were — 1st. To reform a deed of conveyance of certain lands sold by the defendant, R. T. Hudspeth,- to the plaintiff, and correct a mistake in the description of the land as set forth in said deed; and 2d. To set up and enforce a vendor’s lien on the same land, which were afterwards, and before the discovery of the mistake, sold by plaintiff to the defendant, A. J. Hudspeth, the brother of said R. T. Hudspeth.
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