Brown v. Chambers
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of Error to the Comity Court of Mobile. This was an action of covenant at the suit of the defendants in error. The declaration is on a bond dated the 25th December, 1834, by which the defendant below acknowledged that he was indebted to Andrew Dexter in the sum of $10,000; conditioned, that, whereas the defendant, as a joint settler with one William Reynolds, was entitled under the act of Congress of 1830, to the pre-emption of a certain quarter section of land within…
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Writ of Error to the Comity Court of Mobile. This was an action of covenant at the suit of the defendants in error. The declaration is on a bond dated the 25th December, 1834, by which the defendant below acknowledged that he was indebted to Andrew Dexter in the sum of $10,000; conditioned, that, whereas the defendant, as a joint settler with one William Reynolds, was entitled under the act of Congress of 1830, to the pre-emption of a certain quarter section of land within the district of the land office at St. Stephens, and to the pre-emption by way of float of eighty acres more of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
The act of 1822, authorizes an executor or administrator, who has not power by the will to sell real estate for the purpose of paying debts, or to make more equal distribution among the heirs, devisees or legatees, to file a petition in the orphans’ court of the county in which letters of administration, or letters testamentary have been granted.,. *704setting forth that the estate of his testator or intestate is not sufficient for the payment of the just debts of such testator or intestate; or that the real estate of such testator or intestate cannot be equally, fairly and beneficially divided…
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