Bethea v. Bethea
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery, in Equity. Heai-d before the Hon. A. D. Sayre. Kate Bethea and others filed a bill in equity for a sale for partition of certain property in the city of Montgomery.
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Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery, in Equity. Heai-d before the Hon. A. D. Sayre. Kate Bethea and others filed a bill in equity for a sale for partition of certain property in the city of Montgomery. At the sale the property wasi purchased by one of the defendants to the bill, Henry Bethea, for $9,500. Mamie and Theodore Bethea, parties to the suit, filed objections to the confirmation of the sale, on the grounds, (1) that the property sold at a price greatly dispro-portioned to its real value; (2) that at a re-sale largely more than $9,500 would be hid for the property by a solvent…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
We approve the reasoning and concur in the conclusions of the learned judge, who tried this case. We are satisfied to adopt as the opinion of this court the opinion accompanying the decree and cor>ied into the transcript, and which is as follows: “The sale is shown to have been fairly made after unusual advertisement and in the presence of a large crowd, and some of Avhom were men of ample means, and seven or eight of whom took part in the bidding. The propery was offered in lots and then as a whole. As a whole it brought $9,500. Persons who desired to buy would pay no more. In the fact of…
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