Patton v. Crumpler

Citations

• 29 Fla. 573

Syllabus

<p>BILL TO REMOVE CLOUD — POSSESSION OP COMPLAINANT.</p> <p>Where a deed or other instrument of writing exists, apparently valid on its face, but in fact invalid, and which may be vexatiously or injuriously used after the evidence to impeach it is lost, or which may throw a cloud over complainant’s title, and he can not, being in possession, establish his right by any course of proceeding at law, a court of equity will afford him relief ; but where his title is legal in its nature, he must be in possession before he can invoke the aid of a court of equity to remove a cloud from his title.</p>