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Boulware v. Davis

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 15, 1890PublishedCited by 26 opinions

Appeal from the Chancery Court of Maclisón. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on the 30th January, 1888, by Aubin L. Boulware, as receiver, appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction in Virginia, of the property and assets of the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company, of Richmond, Virginia, an insolvent corporation; against Mrs. Sophia L. Davis, individually and as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Nicholas…

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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Maclisón. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on the 30th January, 1888, by Aubin L. Boulware, as receiver, appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction in Virginia, of the property and assets of the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company, of Richmond, Virginia, an insolvent corporation; against Mrs. Sophia L. Davis, individually and as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Nicholas Davis, and their children; and sought to foreclose a mortgage on a tract of land in Huntsville, which was executed by said…

1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.

Appellant, who was appointed receiver of the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company, by the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of "Virginia, seeks by the bill the forecloseure of a mortgage on real property situated in this State, executed to the company, July 29, 1872, by Sophia L. Davis and- Nicholas Davis, to secure the payment of a bond made by them on the same day for the sum of $1,646.14, payable five years alter date. The appeal is taken from a decree of the chancellor sustaining three of the several grounds of demurrer interposed by defendants. We shall…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Van Renesselaer v. KearneySupreme Court of the United States · 1851
  2. Farrior v. New England Mortgage Security Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1889
  3. Alabama Gold Life Insurance v. Central Agricultural & Mechanical Ass'nSupreme Court of Alabama · 1875
  4. Chandler v. SiddleU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Iowa · 1874

3Cited by26 opinions

  1. Nelms v. Edinburg American Land Mortgage Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1890
  2. McMahon v. CooneyMontana Supreme Court · 1933
  3. Railway Co. v. Fire Ass'nSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1891
  4. Union Guardian Trust Co. v. Broadway National Bank & Trust Co.New York Supreme Court · 1930
  5. Castleman v. TemplemanCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1898

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