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70 Ala. 315

Davis v. Snider

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1881

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1881-12-15

Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. This action was brought by James A. Davis, against Mike-Snider, to recover certain personal property, described in the complaint as “one four-feet water-wheel, and shafting and set of mill and gin gearing,” with the value of the hire or use thereof during its detention; and was commenced on the 13th January, 1x81. The cause was tried, as the judgment-entry recites, on issue joined on the plea of non detinet.

Relies on Goetter, Weil & Co. v. Pickett · Paysant v. Ware · Dickinson v. Lewis, Garthwaite & Co.

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Decided 1881-12-15

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Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1909

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STONE, J.

¶1In refusing to give the charge numbered 2, asked by plaintiff, and in giving charge numbered 1-, asked by defendant, the Circuit Court erred, as clearly shown in Ramsey v. Young, at the present term.—69 Ala. 157.

¶2In thus ruling, it is not our intention to preclude inquiry into the alleged fraud, charged to have been perpetrated by plaintiff in procuring defendant’s signature to the instrument he relies on for recovery. If plaintiff fraudulently imposed on defendant, and procured his signature to an instrument he had not agreed to sign, did not know he was signing, ánd did not intend to execute, this amounts to fraud in the execution, which may be proved by parol, and, if satisfactorily established, justifies the jury in finding against its validity.—Swift v. Fitzhugh, 9 Por. 39; Morris v. Harvey, 4 Ala. 300; Mead v. Steger, 5 For. 498; Paysant v. Ware, 1 Ala. 160; Dickinson v. Lewis, 34 Ala. 638. But, see, Goetter, Weil & Co. v. Pickett, 61 Ala. 387.

¶3[Reversed and remanded.

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