Myers v. Ellison

SIMPSON, Justice.

G. H. Myers and wife are the plaintiffs in a bill in equity to set aside a deed of 370 acres of land which they made to Dodd and Ellison, a firm of real estate brokers of Jasper, Alabama. The other defendants, except the First National Bank where the papers were deposited in escrow are Crawford and McCullar, who were sub-purchasers of some of the property from Dodd and Ellisou.

Plaintiffs, who owned the land, employed Ellison as agent to sell it and first quoted a price of $9,500. Ellison interested Crawford in the property and subsequently reported to Myers that Crawford…