Williams, Birnie & Co. v. Bass
Supreme Court of Alabama
APPEAL from the Chancery Court of Lee. Heard before the Hon. B. B. McCraw. Bill was filed by appellee, Sarah G. Bass, suing by her next friend, Ambrose G. Hutchinson, against Sledge and Smith, and Williams, Birnie & Co., and another.
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APPEAL from the Chancery Court of Lee. Heard before the Hon. B. B. McCraw. Bill was filed by appellee, Sarah G. Bass, suing by her next friend, Ambrose G. Hutchinson, against Sledge and Smith, and Williams, Birnie & Co., and another. The prayer of the bill is, to' have the land described, declared the separate estate of complainant; to have a lien decreed upon the same for $7,920, the amount of a certain note held by complainant, given by Sledge & Smith as purchase-money for said lands, less a small amount admitted to have been paid; or, that a conveyance made by complainant and her husband,…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
Appellee', Mrs. Bass, a married woman, •and complainant below in this cause, having lands belonging to her as her statutory separate estate, joined her husband, John G. Bass, in a conveyance of them to Messrs. Sledge & 'Smith, cotton commission merchants in Opelika, Alabama; and they, at the same time, made and delivered to her their promissory note for $7,920, payable some months afterwards, to Mrs. Bass, or bearer, on which she immediately indorsed a credit for $5,272. • The note described the land for which it was given. This was on the 29th of July, 1872. On the second of September…
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