Hanlon v. Bowman

This is an appeal by Forrest Hanlon and others from a summary judgment rendered against them by the Circuit Court of Ritchie County in an action involving real estate. The appellants contend that material issues of fact remained in the case at the time of the entry of the court’s order, and that summary judgment was thus improper. We agree, and we reverse the decision of the circuit court.

In November 1974 the appellants filed the complaint instituting the action now before us. In the complaint the appellants alleged that in 1970 James Hanlon and Nellie Lucille Hanlon (their predecessors in…