Malone v. Lacroix
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Limestone. Tried before the Hon. O. Kyle. This was a statutory action of ejectment, brought by George Malone, Ernest Hiñe, B. H. Richardson, T. J. Turpentine, J. J. Turrentine, I-I. M. Lewis, T. M. Hobbs, W. T. McDonald, and TheO' Westmoreland, as trustees of the Athens station of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, against Ida R. LaCroix.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Limestone. Tried before the Hon. O. Kyle. This was a statutory action of ejectment, brought by George Malone, Ernest Hiñe, B. H. Richardson, T. J. Turpentine, J. J. Turrentine, I-I. M. Lewis, T. M. Hobbs, W. T. McDonald, and TheO' Westmoreland, as trustees of the Athens station of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, against Ida R. LaCroix. As part of their testimony, plaintiffs offered in evidence the proceedings before .the register in chancery of Limestone county, appointing them trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, under the deed set out in…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
=In the year 1833, John M. Lane and Fletcher M. Lane aud their wives, of the county of Limestone, executed a deed to the lot in question to SamuelDe Woody, et al., as trustees of the “Methodist church situated in Athens.” “Unto the said parties of the second part, Trustees as aforesaid and to their successors in office, in trast for the use and purposes hereinafter mentioned and declared. * * * * * That they shall erect a building thereon, or cause to be erected a house of worship, for Hie use of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, according to the rules and…
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- Erwin, Myers & Co. v. CrowellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1850
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