Stone v. Britton
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ereos to the Chancery Court of Talladega. Heard before the Hon. David GL Ligón. The facts will be found in the opinion of the court.
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Ereos to the Chancery Court of Talladega. Heard before the Hon. David GL Ligón. The facts will be found in the opinion of the court. The question presented by this record has, in effect, been decided by this court in the case of McPherson v. Walters, 16 Ala. 715. See also Dongrey v. Topping & Holmes, 4 Paige 94; Read v. Heasley, 2 B. Monroe 254. Where a man encourages another to settle upon and improve land, and expend his labor and money upon it, he will not afterwards be permitted to take it from him, although he has an older and better title to it. McElvey v. Truby, 4 Watts & Serg. 323:…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, C. J.
This was a bill filed in the Chancery Court of Talladega county, by Joel L. Stone, Isaac Hudson and John W. Wood, perpetually to enjoin an action of ejectment instituted by the defendant, as the lessor of the fictitious plaintiff, to recover of said John W. Wood, tenant in possession, a tract of land known as the south-west quarter of section thirty, in township twenty-one, in range three, situate in said county.
The Chancellor dismissed the bill for want of equity, and the propriety of that decree is the question presented by the assignment of error. Do the allegations of the bill, conceding…
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