Powers v. Robinson & Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie Chancery Court of Lauderdale. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on the 27th July, 1888, by J. M. Robinson & Go., a mercantile partnership doing business in Louisville, Kentucky, as judgment creditors of McAlester & Jackson, a late partnership doing business in Florence, Alabama, against Mrs. Lou R. Powers and her husband; and sought to redeem, as such judgment creditors, a town lot in Florence, which Mrs. Powers had bought…
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Appeal from tlie Chancery Court of Lauderdale. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on the 27th July, 1888, by J. M. Robinson & Go., a mercantile partnership doing business in Louisville, Kentucky, as judgment creditors of McAlester & Jackson, a late partnership doing business in Florence, Alabama, against Mrs. Lou R. Powers and her husband; and sought to redeem, as such judgment creditors, a town lot in Florence, which Mrs. Powers had bought at a sale under a power in a mortgage, executed by the partners comprising the firm of McAlester & Jackson, and signed…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, O. J.
The nature of the tenure by which a partnership holds land conveyed to it in its common, or partnership name, has, within a relatively short time, undergone a radical change in the light of English adjudication. — Parsons on Partnership, *369. And the American rule is b3r no means uniform, although in most of the States it is substantially the same as it is in Alabama — a status somewhat intermediate between the former and the present English rule. — lb. *371; Notes to Rapalje’s Bindley on Partnership, bottom pages 559,, 582-3,914 ; Lang v. Waring, 25 Ala. 625; Andrews v. Brown, 21 Ala.…
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