Chapman v. Holding
Supreme Court of Alabama
From tbe Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before tbe Hon. Louis Wteth. This action was brought by William M. Holding and his two sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Hundley (tbe wife of Orville M. Hundley), and Mrs. Mattie Eletcber (tbe wife of A. S. Eletcber), against Reuben Chapman, to recover the possession of a small strip of land, eight or ten feet wide by thirty-three feet six inches long, together with damages for its detention ; and was commenced on the 23d September, 1871. The…
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From tbe Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before tbe Hon. Louis Wteth. This action was brought by William M. Holding and his two sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Hundley (tbe wife of Orville M. Hundley), and Mrs. Mattie Eletcber (tbe wife of A. S. Eletcber), against Reuben Chapman, to recover the possession of a small strip of land, eight or ten feet wide by thirty-three feet six inches long, together with damages for its detention ; and was commenced on the 23d September, 1871. The complaint was in the form given in tbe Revised Code (p. 677), and tbe lot sued for was thus described : “ Beginning at a…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The rulings on demurrer not being shown in the judgment of the court, we cannot consider them.—Petty v. Dill, 53 Ala. 641.
2. The husbands of two of the plaintiffs were called to testify for them. Their testimony did not at all relate to any communications made by one to the other; and it did not tend to disclose any fact or circumstance, connected in the least with that sacred confidence between husband and wife, which should always be respected. We think the objection to the competency of the witnesses was not well taken.—Robinson v. Robinson, 44 Ala. 227; Lang v. Waters, 47 Ala. 624.
3. The…
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