Ragland v. Cantrell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Perry. Heard before the Hon. Charles Turner. The bill in this case was filed on the 5th August, 1867, by John D. Ragland against John E. Cantrell, Anderson J. Pool, and John T. Shropshire; and sought to enjoin a sale of certain lands, under execution issued on a judgment in favor of said Cantrell against said A. J. Pool.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Perry. Heard before the Hon. Charles Turner. The bill in this case was filed on the 5th August, 1867, by John D. Ragland against John E. Cantrell, Anderson J. Pool, and John T. Shropshire; and sought to enjoin a sale of certain lands, under execution issued on a judgment in favor of said Cantrell against said A. J. Pool. Cantrell’s judgment against Pool, which was for upwards of $47,000, was rendered by confession, at the Fall Term, 1865, of the Circuit Court of Perry. The complainant also obtained a judgment by confession against said Pool, at the Spring…
1Opinion of the CourtB. F. Saffold, J.
— The purpose of the bill was to enjoin a sale of lands under execution. In October, 1866, the sheriff of Perry County, having in his hands executions issued upon judgments against A. J. Pool at various times, levied some of them on nearly or quite all of his property, real and personal, and sold the same for their satisfaction publicly, John D. Ragland becoming the purchaser. These judgments were rendered respectively in the Probate Court of Dallas County, in September, 1861, during the late war, in favor of distributees of the estate of D. S. McNeill, on the final settlement of Pool as his…
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