Cobb Real Estate Co. v. Holmes
Cobb Real Estate Co. v. Holmes
Opinion of the Court
James Holmes brought an action against the Cobb Beal Estate Company, a corporation, and two named individuals, to recover a described parcel of land, mesne profits, and damages for trespass on the land, and for injunction against further trespass. It appeared from the petition that the defendant corporation claimed the land sued for, under a conveyance from the plaintiff. The petition was amended by allegations that the conveyance from the plaintiff to the defendant corporation was made to embrace the land sued for, by fraud practiced upon the plaintiff; and there
An examination of the bond for title given by the plaintiff to Aycock discloses the fact that the description of the land covers all the land described and conveyed by plaintiff to the Cobb Beal Estate Company; and this being true, we are unable to understand how the plaintiff has been defrauded, even though there may have been a material variance between the two surveys. The plaintiff has conveyed to the defendant company no more land than he was legally bound to convey under his bond. This conveyance, being only to that part of the land described in the bond for title which was surveyed, does not satisfy the bond. The defendant corporation, to whom the bond for title was assigned, is still entitled, upon pajnnent of the agreed price per acre, to have the plaintiff convey the balance of the land described in the bond for title. There is no allegation that the acreage covered by the new plat was misstated, and thereby that the defendant procured a deed covering more acres than was paid for. But the allegation is that it embraced the land sued for, which was land which the plaintiff had never agreed to sell either to defendant corporation or to any one else. This allegation, however, is not borne out by the bond for title, which controls, it appearing from that instrument that the plaintiff intended to sell all the land in the specified original land lot which lay west of the Georgia Northern Bailroad, except the three described lots which were recited as being owned by other persons, thus showing an intention to sell all of that lot which he owned west of the said railroad, reserving to himself none of it. The land in dispute was some of the land which lay west of the railroad; and .consequently the defendant, upon payment of the purchase-price, was entitled to a deed; and it makes no difference that it might not have been included in the survey of the town lots. As there was no ground alleged for reforming the deed, and the deed concluded the plaintiff as to his right to recover the land, the judge erred in refusing to dismiss the petition on general demurrer. Judgment reversed.
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- COBB REAL ESTATE COMPANY v. HOLMES
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