Snyder v. Glover
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Marengo Circuit Court. Tried before ILon. Wm. E. Clarke. This was a statutory real action in the nature of ejectment, by Mrs. Mary T. Glover, a married woman, the wife of Pearson J. Glover, against 'John II. Snyder ; and was commenced on 3rd October, 1882. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, from which the defendant prosecuted this appeal.
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Appeal from Marengo Circuit Court. Tried before ILon. Wm. E. Clarke. This was a statutory real action in the nature of ejectment, by Mrs. Mary T. Glover, a married woman, the wife of Pearson J. Glover, against 'John II. Snyder ; and was commenced on 3rd October, 1882. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, from which the defendant prosecuted this appeal. The defendant claimed under a deed executed by the plaintiff and her husband, which is sufficiently described in the opinion ; while the plaintiff contended that the deed, purporting, as it does, to convey lands…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, J".
Each claimant in this contention rests the right of recovery on the postulate, that the lands sued for were of the statutory separate estate of Mrs. Glover. Snyder, the appellant, claims under and through her. The defendant’s title is a deed of bargain and sale, absolute on its face, executed to him by Glover and wife in December, 1880, on a recited consideration of thirty-two hundred dollars paid. This deed was duly executed, and attested by two witnesses, with certificate of acknowledgment and registration in due form of law. There was no attempt to prove any fraud in the…
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