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Scroggs v. Land Co.

Supreme Court of Colorado. Department Two
Feb 2, 1925
233 P. 831 (Colo. 1925)

Summary

In Scroggs v. Harkness Heights Land Co., 76 Colo. 597, 233 P. 831 (1925), defendant had paid $140.00, or about 26% of the purchase price, and was four months in default.

Summary of this case from Terre Grande, Inc. v. Four Corners Oil Minerals

Opinion

No. 11,147.

Decided February 2, 1925. Rehearing denied March 2, 1925.

Action to quiet title. Decree for plaintiff.

Affirmed. On Application for Supersedeas.

1. PRINCIPAL AND AGENT — Real Property — Title. The purchaser of a lot could not claim she was misled by the conduct of the title holder, when her agent, who conducted the transaction, had previous actual notice of the condition of the title.

Error to the District Court of the City and County of Denver, Hon. Julian H. Moore, Judge.

Mr. T. E. ANDERSON, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. T. E. WATTERS, Mr. PERCY S. MORRIS, for defendant in error.


THE defendant in error was plaintiff below and had a decree quieting its title to a lot in Denver. Louise C. Anderson, one of the defendants below, alone assigns error.

Mrs. Anderson claims under one Addis who had an unrecorded contract of purchase from the plaintiff company in whom the title stood of record. Payments were defaulted, and, after thirty days' notice to all parties, including Mrs. Anderson, to come in and pay, and failure by all to do so, the company took possession.

The claim of plaintiff in error is that she was misled into the purchase of the lot by the conduct of the plaintiff in holding out Addis as the owner, but the evidence is that her son and agent, who conducted the transaction for her, had actual and previous notice of the plaintiff's title and of the fact that Addis held only by contract.

Supersedeas denied and judgment affirmed.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ALLEN and MR. JUSTICE WHITFORD concur.


Summaries of

Scroggs v. Land Co.

Supreme Court of Colorado. Department Two
Feb 2, 1925
233 P. 831 (Colo. 1925)

In Scroggs v. Harkness Heights Land Co., 76 Colo. 597, 233 P. 831 (1925), defendant had paid $140.00, or about 26% of the purchase price, and was four months in default.

Summary of this case from Terre Grande, Inc. v. Four Corners Oil Minerals
Case details for

Scroggs v. Land Co.

Case Details

Full title:SCROGGS, ET AL. v. HARKNESS HEIGHTS LAND CO

Court:Supreme Court of Colorado. Department Two

Date published: Feb 2, 1925

Citations

233 P. 831 (Colo. 1925)
233 P. 831

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