Lee v. Campbell's Heirs
Supreme Court of Alabama
In error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. In this case, an action of trespass to try titles was brought by the heirs of Archibald Campbell, deceased, against the plaintiff id error, for the recovery of three lots pf land, lying, situate and being in the town of Montgomery, and known as lots numbered 18, 10 and 20. The pleas were, not guilty and liberum tenementum; and upon them a special verdict was rendered, on the twenty-fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and…
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In error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. In this case, an action of trespass to try titles was brought by the heirs of Archibald Campbell, deceased, against the plaintiff id error, for the recovery of three lots pf land, lying, situate and being in the town of Montgomery, and known as lots numbered 18, 10 and 20. The pleas were, not guilty and liberum tenementum; and upon them a special verdict was rendered, on the twenty-fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in the following words, to wit— “ We find that the defendant has failed to prove, to the satisfaction of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, J.
— Tiie defendants in error, brought an action of trespass in the Montgomery Circuit Court, to. try titles, &c., to lots numbered eighteen, nineteen, and twenty, situate on the south side of Washington street, in the town of Montgomery.
The cause was tried on issues formed on the pleas not guilty and libemm tenementum, and the jury returned a special verdict in these words — “We find that the defendant has failed to prove to the satisfaction of the jury—
“First that the administrator gave bond in compliance with the requisition of the law.
*201“ Second — That he failed to prove the requisite notice…
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