Shelby v. Tardy
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal Rom Madison Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill was filed by Mrs. Annie S. Tardy against her husband Clarence Tardy and David D. Shelby, and sought to have a resulting trust in her favor declared in certain lands bought by her husband, and to remove a cloud on the title thereof caused by a contract for the sale of said lands to said Shelby entered into by her husband and Shelby.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
There is but one bill in this case — that of Annie S. Tardy against Shelby, and against complainant’s husband, Clarence Tardy. The object and prayer of the bill are to have it declared that Clarence, the husband, acquired and held title to the lands in controversy in trust for complainant, his wife, either as a resulting or constructive trust, and to have Shelby’s claim of title vacated and removed, as a cloud on the said Annie’s title. She alone is actor in this suit, she alone prays relief, and, as the pleadings stand, only such relief can be granted, as is necessary to secure to her the…
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