Hand v. Barden

SIMPSON, Justice.

Appellants filed a bill of complaint in the Circuit Court for Houston County seeking to cancel a sheriff’s deed. The demurrers of the several respondents to the bill were sustained and the bill dismissed without leave to amend.

The appellants, in 1947, unsuccessfully contested a claim of homestead exemptions in proceedings on an estate. The decree in that matter, an exhibit to the bill considered here, states':

“Considerable cost has been incurred in the hearing of the contest filed in this proceedings. The Court is of the opinion that contestants in this proceedings and…