State ex rel. Attorney General v. Wilkinson

KOHN, Justice.

This action was instituted by the complainant, State of Alabama, by bill to quiet title to a certain piece of land approximately 150 x 215 feet square on the north side of Mobile Bay Causeway. Respondents (appellees) claim their title and interest through a chain of title which originated from a deed executed by the State of Alabama to respondents’ predecessors in title, and the respondents further base their title to the land on a deed received from the State of Alabama, pursuant to' Title 8, § 248, Code of Alabama, 1940, and the respondents further rely upon the fact that the…