Blount v. Blount
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Gadsden City Court. Heard before 1-Ion. John H. Dtsque. Bill by Joseph G. Blount against Lily T. Blount and others to cancel and remove a deed as oloud on title. From a judgment for defendant complainant appeals.
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Appeal from Gadsden City Court. Heard before 1-Ion. John H. Dtsque. Bill by Joseph G. Blount against Lily T. Blount and others to cancel and remove a deed as oloud on title. From a judgment for defendant complainant appeals. The facts made by the case are that Gus Blount, the husband of Lily Blount and the father of the other respondents, filed for record and had recorded in the probate office of Etowah county a deed to himself from Joseph G. Blount, conveying a lot of land to said Gus Blount, reserving a life interest in Joseph G. Blount. Gus Blount died, and Joseph G. Blount filed this bill…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
The serious question involved in this appeal is this: There is found on the records of the prohate office — which is by law made the registry of deeds — a record of what purports on its face to be a deed by A. to B. This record on its face shows the deed to have been properly signed by A., attested by C., and acknowledged by A., before a notary, E., and filed in the probate office for record four days after it purported to have been executed. That which purported to be the original deed is lost, and the grantee is dead. In a suit between the alleged grantor and the heirs, distributees, and…
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