Lamar v. Gunter
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall. Tried before the HoN. Wm. M. Ebooks. This action was brought by Daniel Gunter and others, heirs-at-law of Edward Gunter, deceased, against James Lamar, and was commenced on the 22d April, 1856. The land in controversy was a tract containing sis hundred and forty acres, and was reserved to Edward Gunter, the plaintiffs’ ancestor, (who was a Cherokee Indian,) under the treaty concluded at Washington, on the 27th February, 1819,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marshall. Tried before the HoN. Wm. M. Ebooks. This action was brought by Daniel Gunter and others, heirs-at-law of Edward Gunter, deceased, against James Lamar, and was commenced on the 22d April, 1856. The land in controversy was a tract containing sis hundred and forty acres, and was reserved to Edward Gunter, the plaintiffs’ ancestor, (who was a Cherokee Indian,) under the treaty concluded at Washington, on the 27th February, 1819, between the Cherokee Indians and the United States. Said Edward Gunter removed, witb bis tribe, to tbe west of tbe Mississippi…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Tbe title of the appellant in this case rests on a sale made under a decree in chancery. Tbe bill, wbicb was tbe commencement of tbe chancery proceedings, was filed by tbe children of Evan Nicholson, deceased, against Edward Gunter, tbe father of tbe present appel-lees ; and proceeded against him as surety of John E. Nicb-*332olson, who was their guardian. The object of the bill was to collect out of said Gunter and bis effects an alleged indebtedness from John R. Nicholson, the guardian, to the complainants, his wards. The bill, among other things, prayed for an attachment against the effects of…
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