Moore v. Shipp

LAWSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final decree of the circuit court of Russell County, in equity.

We will undertake to relate the events which led up to this litigation. We hope they are stated correctly, but we cannot be sure because the record before us fails to portray a clear picture of those events.

In the early part of 1939 John D. Burkes, a resident of Phenix City, Russell County, Alabama, became interested in the purchase of some land which was owned by William M. Shipp, which land was situate in or near Phenix City -and which, for the purposes of this opinion, we will treat as…