Hampton v. Haneline
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Greene Chancery Court; Cha's. D. Frierson, Chancellor; statement by the court. Appellees instituted this suit against the appellant to recover a certain tract of land in Greene County, Arkansas.. They sued as the widow and children of L. E. Penny..
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Appeal from Greene Chancery Court; Cha's. D. Frierson, Chancellor; statement by the court. Appellees instituted this suit against the appellant to recover a certain tract of land in Greene County, Arkansas.. They sued as the widow and children of L. E. Penny.. They alleged in their complaint that they had title under a deed from one Amanda Haneline t.o L. E. Penny, R. L. Haneline and S. P. Haneline, dated February 3, 1897, and filed for record September 27, 1913; that they were entitled to the immediate possession, and prayed judgment for the recovery of the lands, and damages for the…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
(after stating the facts.) The appellant alleged in his cross-complaint that the grantees in the deed under which the appellees claimed title fraudulently caused said deed to recite a consideration of $100 instead of the covenant to support the grantor, and secured the grantor to sign the deed in the belief that it recited the true consideration.
The appellees, in their answer to the cross-complaint, “deny that the deed under which they hold is null and void, or that any fraud, as alleged in defendant’s cross-complaint, was practiced, etc.”
Upon these allegations of the complaint and answer it…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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