Hamilton v. Clements' Adm'rs
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Chancery Court of Randolph. Tried before the Hon. David G. Ligón. The deed relied on by defendants as a bar to the relief sought, does not include or embrace any right or interest of Mrs. Hamilton, but embraces only the distributive portions of Hamilton, Watts and McAdams in the estates of James and William Clements.
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Error to the Chancery Court of Randolph. Tried before the Hon. David G. Ligón. The deed relied on by defendants as a bar to the relief sought, does not include or embrace any right or interest of Mrs. Hamilton, but embraces only the distributive portions of Hamilton, Watts and McAdams in the estates of James and William Clements. It does not assign any rights given to Mrs. Hamilton by any agreement or contract, but only such rights as were given by law in the estates of James and William Clements, aside from any contract or agreement of William Clements. The recital of a consideration in the…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
The plaintiffs in error filed their bill in the Chancery Court for Randolph county, against the administrators and children of William Clements, deceased, and the husbands of the daughters. The bill spates that- James Clements, in the year 1832, by his bill of sale conveyed to his son, the said William Clements, now deceased, the title to certain negro slaves, without any valuable consideration, although the bill of sale acknowledged a consideration of fifteen hundred dollars. The complainants also state that the parties to the bill of sale agreed, when the bill of sale was executed, that the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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