Reel v. Overall
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Chancery Court at Mobile. Heard before the Hon. N. "W. Cooke. The bill in this case was filed, on the 11th February, 1861, by John Reel, against Frances Ann Kelso, Amelia Kelso, and James Kelso, infants, and devisees under the will of the complainant’s deceased wife, and against G. Y. Overall, their guardian.
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Appeal from tbe Chancery Court at Mobile. Heard before the Hon. N. "W. Cooke. The bill in this case was filed, on the 11th February, 1861, by John Reel, against Frances Ann Kelso, Amelia Kelso, and James Kelso, infants, and devisees under the will of the complainant’s deceased wife, and against G. Y. Overall, their guardian. Its object was to enforce against the property belonging to the separate estate of the complainant’s deceased wife, which consisted of certain city lots in Mobile, and which she had devised to the infant defendants, a claim for moneys advanced and expended by the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Mr. Eeel intermarried with Mrs. Lambert in 1849. She died in 1860. At the time of the marriage, Mrs. Lambert owned a lot or lots in the city of Mobile, which she devised by her will to certain nephews and nieces, excluding her husband from her bounty. She appointed Mr. Overall her executor, who has qualified as such, and has also been appointed guardian to the devisees, who are infants. The present bill is filed to collect out of the property devised, first, the sum of eight hundred dollars, which the complainant avers he advanced to or for Mrs. Lambert, before the marriage, with which to pay…
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