Hinds v. Federal Land Bank of New Orleans

THOMAS, Justice.

The former appeal in this case was from a ruling on demurrers challenging the necessity for a cross bill. On that appeal it was observed:

“The original bill, filed by the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans, is'a'statutory bill to quiet title to a tract of 87 acres of land, specifically described in the bill, located in the northeast of section 6, township 10, range 2 east, Blount county, Ala., near the town of Summit. * * *

“The only land within the lis pendens_ is the tract of 87 acres described in the bill, and the answer does not set up an independent equity, but asserts a…