Etowah Manufacturing, etc. Co. v. Alford

Hall, Justice.

This was an action in the statutory form in favor of four plaintiffs for the recovery of the lot of land in dispute. The abstract of title attached showed no conveyance to the plaintiffs jointly and no deed from the grantee of the land to either of his co-plaintiffs, but it did set forth successive deeds from the plaintiff, Gilbert, to his immediate vendee, and from each successive holder to others named in the abstract and to divers others not so named, who, it was alleged, derived title from and under him. The evidence failed to show any joint right in the plaintiffs, and the…