Park v. Lide
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery, in equity. Heard before the Hon. Tiios. M. Arrington. The bill in this case was filed on the 17th February, 1886, by Frank W. Lide against Howard P. Park, and sought to set aside three several sales under powers in mortgages, at each of which one Robert E. Park became the nominal purchaser, and his subsequent conveyance of the land to said Howard P. Park, who was his brother. The tract of land had belonged to Alex.
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Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery, in equity. Heard before the Hon. Tiios. M. Arrington. The bill in this case was filed on the 17th February, 1886, by Frank W. Lide against Howard P. Park, and sought to set aside three several sales under powers in mortgages, at each of which one Robert E. Park became the nominal purchaser, and his subsequent conveyance of the land to said Howard P. Park, who was his brother. The tract of land had belonged to Alex. W. McDade, who died, intestate, in April, 1877; and he conveyed it by deed of gift, a few days before his death, to his daughter, Janie L.…
1Opinion of the Court
MoCLÉLLAN, J.
This record does not sufficiently present the action of the Chancery Court on the demurrer to the bill, to enable us to review it. No decree in that behalf appears in the transcript. What seems to 'be a mere docket memorandum of the chancellor is transcribed; but that is not a decree, but a mere direction of the chancellor to the register, *249which may or may not have been developed into a decree by formal incorporation into the minutes of the court. We can not consider assignments of error based on it.—Baker v. Swift, 87 Ala. 530.
This leaves for consideration only the final decree…
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