Walton v. Bonham
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery- Heard before the Hon. J. W. Lesesne- . The appellees filed this bill to enjoin a judgment at law, . recovered against them by the appellant, as the administrator of Samuel Humphries, deceased, on a note given for the purchase money of a certain tract of land, sold by said Humphries to complainant Bonham in 1846, on which note the other complainants were said Bonham’s sureties.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery- Heard before the Hon. J. W. Lesesne- . The appellees filed this bill to enjoin a judgment at law, . recovered against them by the appellant, as the administrator of Samuel Humphries, deceased, on a note given for the purchase money of a certain tract of land, sold by said Humphries to complainant Bonham in 1846, on which note the other complainants were said Bonham’s sureties. The bill alleges, that said Humphries fraudulently represented to said Bonham that he had a perfect title to said land, and conveyed the same to him by deed with warranty of…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
The equity of the bill rests upon the allegations of the sale of land by Humphries, the intestate of the defendant, to the complainant, with warranty of title ; the fraudulent representations on the part of the vendor that he had the title at the time of the conveyance, when, in fact, he had not, by reason of his conveyance to his children before that time; and the insolvency of his estate, which renders it unable to respond in damages. These allegations are sufficient to sustain the bill. —Young v. Harris, 2 Ala. 108; Spence v. Driver, 3 Ala. 251; Greenlee v. Gaines, 13 Ala. 198.
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