TAYLOR v. MARTIN

1900704.

585 So.2d 849 (1991)

Vernia TAYLOR, as administratrix of the Estate of George A. Powell, Jr., deceased, v. James D. MARTIN, as Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Killian, Fort Payne, for appellant.

Otis J. Goodwyn, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


MADDOX, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the grantee violated a condition of a real estate deed so as to cause the title to the property conveyed to revert to and be vested in the heirs of the grantor.

On June 6, 1952, W.A. Powell, a widower, conveyed two forty-acre tracts of land along the rim of Little River Canyon to the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources ("the Department"). The conveyance culminated a negotiated sale of...

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