Jackson v. Brown Et Al‪.‬

On July 27, 1951, Anthony Jackson filed a petition against named persons as Trustees of Loftin's Camp Ground, wherein he alleges: that he purchased a described lot of land on January 4, 1936, and that subsequently the Trustees of Loftin's Camp Ground came to him and fraudulently represented that the property was not the property of the one from whom he purchased it, but was the property of Loftin's Camp Ground, and that they as trustees held title thereto; that the trustees, well knowing their claim to be false and fraudulent, insisted upon the petitioner executing a deed releasing the property to the trustees, and, when petitioner stated to said trustees that he desired to first make an investigation as to the title to the property, he was assured by the trustees that, if the petitioner would go ahead and quitclaim the property to them, and it was later determined that they were mistaken as to their claim, they would reconvey the property to the petitioner; and, to induce and force the petitioner to convey the property without first letting him investigate as to the title, the trustees told him that, if he would sign the deed, and it was determined that the property was that of Loftin's Camp Ground, they would allow him to remain on the property for a period of fifteen years; but that, if he did not then and there sign the deed, and it was determined that the property was that of Loftin's Camp Ground, they would evict him from the property immediately; that he was an ignorant colored man, who had never before had any experience in the purchase of real estate, and relying upon the fraudulent statements made by the trustees, he executed a quitclaim deed to the trustees on July 20, 1936, reciting therein their claim of title to the property, and that he ""now finds that he has no title to said property,"" and ""in order to settle the title to said property and to show that the matter has been adjusted between the party of the first part and the above trustees, the party of the first part does hereby sell and convey and quitclaim unto the parties of the second part, their successors and assigns"" the described property, which deed contained a reservation in the petitioner of the right to live on the property for a period of fifteen years.