Stockstill v. Bart

This is a suit to remove a cloud upon the title to real estate. A. certain corporation, being the apparent owner of the property, sold it to the complainants for its full value, gave them a deed, and put them in possession. Whether said corporation was or was not the legal owner of the property at the time of said sale depends upon the validity of a contract which it made for the purchase thereof, and of a deed given to it by Airs. Hanna Forbes. The defendant Bart claims to be the owner of the property by virtue of a deed to him from Mrs. Forbes and her hus*232band, and he has given a mortgage…