Johnson v. Wynn

In 1960, the plaintiff, Joe W. Johnson, entered into a land contract to purchase a home. The defendants, Oscar Wynn and Nathor Wynn, husband and wife, rely on a written assignment of Johnson’s purchaser’s interest in the land contract which purports to have been signed by Johnson on March 1, 1962.

Five years later, on February 23,1967, the instrument of assignment was recorded. Johnson claims that he first learned of the instrument some time later when he went to pay the property taxes on the home and a clerk commented on the transfer of Johnson’s purchaser’s interest.

Johnson commenced this…