Legal Opinion

Gholson v. Watson

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided August 29, 1986No. 85-373PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BEATTY, Justice.

Woodrow and Clara Watson brought this action initially against Dewey and Florence Gholson to recover possession of a certain tract of land in Baldwin County. The Ghol-sons filed a counterclaim against the Wat-sons and filed a third-party complaint against William Dale Permenter and Elizabeth A. Permenter, Ponderosa Farms (a Florida general partnership), and William Otis Wakeman and Edna Young Wakeman. That counterclaim and the third-party complaint alleged an erroneous legal description in the deed from the Wakemans to the Gholsons and prayed for reformation of that deed under…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Tidwell v. StricklerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1984
  2. Bank of Southeast v. KoslinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1980
  3. Scarbrough v. SmithSupreme Court of Alabama · 1984
  4. Grooms v. MitchellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1983
  5. Taylor v. First National Bank of TuskaloosaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1966

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3Cited by2 opinions

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  2. Sanchez v. McKinneySupreme Court of Alabama · 2011

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