Bettis' v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the circuit court of Mobile county. At the present term of the Supreme court, the death of the plaintiff below was suggested, by his administrator the plaintiff in error, and the court moved for process to bring the case into this court for the revision of the judgment below. Upon which motion, the court delivered the following opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
The plaintiff presented to the court the transcript of a record from the Circuit court of Mobile, which shewed that the defendant recovered a judgment against Wm. II. Howell, and caused an execution to be issued and levied on some negro slaves; to which the plaintiff’s intestate, as the administrator of Caleb Howell, deceased, interposed a claim under the statute. Upon trial, the slaves were condemned to the *334satisfaction of defendant’s execution, and a judgment rendered against the plaintiff’s intestate, in his individual capacity. The plaintiff’s intestate died since the rendition of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sewall v. Bates' adm'rsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1830
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