Underwood v. Underwood
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. A. D. Sayre. Bill by W. IT. Underwood against Piety Underwood to require a sale of personal property for bis benefit as remainder, or to require security given tberefor. From a decree dismissing tbe bill complainant appeals.
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Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. A. D. Sayre. Bill by W. IT. Underwood against Piety Underwood to require a sale of personal property for bis benefit as remainder, or to require security given tberefor. From a decree dismissing tbe bill complainant appeals. Tbe demurrer was sustained on every gnound and unless there is some ground wbicb goes to tbe whole bill on its merits, tbe order dismissing tbe bill must be reversed. — House v. Mullen, 22 Wall. 42. Where there is a future right of enjoyment of personal property courts of equity will interpose and grant relief upon a…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
This was a bill filed by a remainderman as to personal property, to require an account of the items and value of the property received by the life tenant under the will of the testator, which also vested a remainder in the complainant, and prayed that all of said property, or such of it as should be, be sold and converted into cash in order to secure to orator, as remainderman, his rights under the fifth clause of the will, and that the use of the property not sold, and the interest of the proceeds of that sold, be secured to the life tenant, and that the property not sold and the net…
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