Bullock v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was an action of trespass to try title, determined in the Circuit Court of Shelby county, upon the plea of not guilty. On the trial in the Court below, the plaintiff offered in evidence, the duplicate receipt of the receiver of public monies, for the Tuscaloosa land district, dated on the twenty-eighth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, showing full payment for the parcel of land in controversy.
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This was an action of trespass to try title, determined in the Circuit Court of Shelby county, upon the plea of not guilty. On the trial in the Court below, the plaintiff offered in evidence, the duplicate receipt of the receiver of public monies, for the Tuscaloosa land district, dated on the twenty-eighth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, showing full payment for the parcel of land in controversy. It was objected by the defendant, that the certificate was not admissible in evidence — ■ First — Because a patent had issued for said land, which was in proof. Secondly — Because it…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, J.
The defendant in error recovered a judgment, in an action of trespass, to try titles on the plea of “not guilty,” against the plaintiff, in the Circuit Court of Shelby, adjudging to him, the right to the possession of a certain tract of land, *341lying in that country, with damages for its occupancy by the plaintiff. .
On the trial, the plaintiff in error, objected to the admissibility of the duplicate receipt of the receiver of public monies, at the land office in Tuscaloosa, though it was in due form, and the genuineness of the hand writing, and the fact of the individual subscribing himself as…
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