Sloss-Sheffield S. & I. Co. v. Lollar
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Walker Circuit‘Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Benners. Bill by L. W. Lollar against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, to quiet title, with cross bill by the defendants seeking affirmative relief.
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Appeal from Walker Circuit‘Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Benners. Bill by L. W. Lollar against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, to quiet title, with cross bill by the defendants seeking affirmative relief. From a decree dismissing both the bill and the cross bill, both parties appeal., In a bill of this character it is necessary that there b'é an averment of actual or construe-tive posession of tbe land by one claiming to own it.— Sec. 5443, Code 1907; Smith v. Gordon, 136 Ala. 495. •Section 5446, of the Code requires the court to pass upon defendant’s title or interest in the…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, C. J.
Prom a final decree of the chancellor, rendered on a submission of the cause on the pleadings and proof, the present appeals, direct and cross, are taken. The Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, hereinafter designated as the Sloss Company, was respondent in the original bill and the complainant in the cross-bill. L. W. Lollar was complainant in the original and respondent in the cross bill.
L. W. Lollar filed his bill under the statute (section 5443 et seq., of the Code of 1907) for the purpose of quieting title and compelling a determination of claims to the land described in the bill. The…
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