Case ID: fla_91/html/1057-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.-", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

W. D. Hoyt and R. H. Hoyt, Plaintiffs in Error, v. W. L. Evans, Defendant in Error.
    
    Division B.
    
      Duncan & Hamlin, and A. G. Hamlin, for Plaintiffs in Error ;
    
      J. W. Hunter and W. M. Kennedy, for Defendant in Error.
   On Rehearing. .

Per Curiam.-

— -A declaration in ejectment alléges'possession by the defendant and a plea of not guilty admits possession. The holder of the legal title to land may enforce the contract obligations of one in possession under a contract to purchase or upon default may terminate the contract rights by due course of law.

But where the owner of real estate, under a verbal contract for the sale of it and upon the payment of a párt of the purchase price, puts one party in possession and afterwards executes a deed of conveyance to another, while the party is in possession under the contract of sale, such subsequent grantee is not entitled to a judgment in ejectment for the possession of the land at least until the contract rights of the party in possession have been duly terminated.

Rehearing denied.

Wi-iitfield, P. J., and Terrell and Buford, J. J., concur ;

Brown, C. J., and Ellis and Strum, J. J., concur in the opinion.