Legal Opinion
Norton v. Orendorff
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided November 7, 1914PublishedCited by 3 opinions
Appeal from Morgan Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speake. Action by Eliza A. Orendorff against Lawrence W. Norton and another, for damages for destroying a lien. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant Norton appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under the act establishing such court.
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
The following is the declaration upon which this case was tried, and upon which a judgment was rendered against one Prince and the appellant Norton:
“Count 2. Plaintiff claims of defendants a like sum of $125, for that heretofore, to wit, on the 14th day of November, 1911, the plaintiff had a lien upon two certain bales of cotton, which, or plaintiff’s landlord’s lien on which, the defendants on or about said date did wrongfully dispose of and make way with. And plaintiff avers that for the year 1911 the said R. L. Prince was a tenant of plaintiff’s upon and with respect to a…
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- Leuthold v. FairchildSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
- Foxworth v. Brown Bros.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1897
- Teat v. Chapman & Co.Alabama Court of Appeals · 1911
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