Boone v. Byrd
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Monroe County ; Ben D. Turner, Judge. Bill by S. J. Byrd and others against Frank Boone and others. From the overruling of defendants’ demurrer to the bill, the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Appellees filed the bill in this cause to enjoin the further prosecution of a pending action of ejectment brought by appellants. Appellees hold the land in controversy under the same claim of right and title as did the predecessors of the appellee in the case of Boone v. Gulf, Florida & Alabama Railway Co., 78 South. 956. As appears from the opinion in that case, this land was sol’d for taxes to J. F. McCorvey in 1869. Through mesne conveyances appellees hold under McCorvey. In the bill now under consideration it is averred that:
“D. D. King [to whom McCorvey sold and through whom appellees…
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