Sollie v. Outlaw
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Henry County; H. A. Pearce, Judge. Bill by Susie Outlaw and others against Mrs. A. E. Sollie, to enforce a decree pf the chancery court of Henry county, Ala. From a decree overruling the demurrers to the bill respondent appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Henry County; H. A. Pearce, Judge. Bill by Susie Outlaw and others against Mrs. A. E. Sollie, to enforce a decree pf the chancery court of Henry county, Ala. From a decree overruling the demurrers to the bill respondent appeals. The history of the case is that on September 10, 1908, a decree was rendered in the case of J. J. AYillis et al. v. W. M. Willis et al., ordering a sale of land to enforce a vendor’s lien, and was subject to a mortgage held by W. S. Oates on the land, and that the order of sale was never carried out, but was conlinued under formal order of…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, C. J.
[1] The bill as amended, while charging fraud and misconduct on the part of the husband of the respondent, A. E. Sollie, who was of counsel for the complainants in the procurement of a decree in a former cause in giving the Oates mortgage priority and in failing to properly prosecute their claim, does not seek to repudiate or review the former decree adjudging such priority, but merely asks an interpretation and enforcement of same, upon the theory that there are obstacles against the enforcement of same, in that the cause was dismissed by the court for want of prosecution after the rendition…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Ex parte GistSupreme Court of Alabama · 1898
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