Oden v. Dupuy
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in the present case was filed May 29, 1889, by the brothers and sisters, heirs-at-law, of James M. Ware, deceased, and it makes defendants the descendants of Mrs. Dupuy and of William S. Mudd, the remaining heirs at'law of James A. Mudd, deceased.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in the present case was filed May 29, 1889, by the brothers and sisters, heirs-at-law, of James M. Ware, deceased, and it makes defendants the descendants of Mrs. Dupuy and of William S. Mudd, the remaining heirs at'law of James A. Mudd, deceased. The avowed purpose of the bill is to remove a cloud from James M. Mudd’s title to certain land, described in the bill of complaint, as the S. W. ^of the S. E. | of Section 27, Township 17, Bange 3 West. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
James A. Mudd, died intestate prior to 1868 — probably about 1863. He had never been married, and left no lineal descendants. His next of kin, heirs at law, were his brother, William S. Mudd, his sister, Susan S. Dupuy, and James M. Ware and his brothers and sisters, children of Mary J. Ware, a sister of James A. Mudd— she having died before the proceedings after noticed were instituted. William S. Mudd, became the duly' appointed administrator of James A. Mudd deceased.
When James A. Mudd, died he owned and resided on a . farm, or plantation near the site on which the city of Birmingham was…
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