Feagin, Kendall & Co. v. Jones
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Covington. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. This action was brought by S. A. Jones against the partners composing the firm of Feagin, Kendall & Co., to recover the possession of a tract of land, with damages for its detention; and was commenced on the 3d June, 1889. The tract of land was within the grant by Congress to the State of Alabama, in June, 1856, to aid in the construction of the Mobile & Girard railroad; but it was admitted…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Covington. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. This action was brought by S. A. Jones against the partners composing the firm of Feagin, Kendall & Co., to recover the possession of a tract of land, with damages for its detention; and was commenced on the 3d June, 1889. The tract of land was within the grant by Congress to the State of Alabama, in June, 1856, to aid in the construction of the Mobile & Girard railroad; but it was admitted that said railroad had not been built further than Troy in Pike county, which was more than twenty miles distant from said…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
— The defendants reserved exceptions to the action of the trial court in overruling their objections to the introduction in evidence of the book containing the tax-collector’s entry of the land sued for as assessed for taxation, and the decree of the Probate Court for the sale of the same ; and to the introduction of the deed to said land made by the probate judge to the plaintiff. The defendants did not estop themselves from making or insisting upon these objections by setting up title in themselves to the land in dispute, under another alleged tax-sale based upon the same proceedings. The…
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