Bolman v. Overall
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon. John A. Foster. The bill in this case was filed by Louisa Bolman and her married daughters, Caroline Kramer and Emma Pfieffer, against Gibson Y. Overall, as the executor of Augusta Lohman, deceased, November 6th, 1886. The averments of the bill sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon. John A. Foster. The bill in this case was filed by Louisa Bolman and her married daughters, Caroline Kramer and Emma Pfieffer, against Gibson Y. Overall, as the executor of Augusta Lohman, deceased, November 6th, 1886. The averments of the bill sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. A demurrer was interposed by the defendants, setting out a great number of grounds, among which were those numbered 5 and 15, which are in the following words, viz: “ 5. The bill shows that Louisa Bolman was a married woman at the time the…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeryille, J.
The appeal is from a decree of the *454chancellor sustaining a demurrer to the bill of complaint filed by the appellants for specific performance. The complainants are the legates under the will of one Augusta Tollman, which instrument purported to be executed in consideration of valuable services rendered to her in her lifetime by the complainants, and was executed on December firsi, 1881, and delivered to Mrs. Louisa Bolman, who was made éxecutrix of the will, and residuary legatee therein, and is one of the complainants. In April 1883. the testator executed another will in which she sought to…
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