Drennen v. White
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Benners. Bill by H. K. White against W. M. Drennen and others. Decree for complainant, and respondents appeal. The bill contained the statutory averments, and prays for the quieting of the title.
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Appeal from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Benners. Bill by H. K. White against W. M. Drennen and others. Decree for complainant, and respondents appeal. The bill contained the statutory averments, and prays for the quieting of the title. Respondent Drennen answered, admitting the allegations of the first paragraph, but denies the allegations of the second paragraph, setting up that he is in the peaceable possession of the property, and that his title was paramount to complainant’s or the other respondents named in the bill, and sets forth his title by deed from Wild Smith…
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, j.(1) The original bill was filed by White against the appellant Drennen and others. It is a statutory bill seeking to quiet the title.—Code, § 5443 et seq. By answers and cross-bills and answers thereto and testimony taken — all likewise seeking the quieting of the other titles to the realty described in the original bill — the questions to be considered were raised below, and are now presented for review here upon errors alone assigned by the appellant Drennen. The first insistence is that the cross-bill of Drennen’s corespondent Clark was deficient in its asserted failure to…
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