Legal Opinion

City of Bessemer v. Schanz

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 11, 1933No. 6 Div. 347PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

This case has been here on former appeal, 145 So. 424. It was there held that the bill was defective for failing to aver the peaceable possession of the complainant. After the cause was reversed, the bill was amended to cure the defect as pointed out, and the trial court then overruled the appellant’s demurrer to the bill as last amended.

The only insistence or argument by appellant’s counsel upon the present appeal is that the demurrer should have been sustained because of the statute of limitations or laches. We are not unmindful of the rule that, when a bill in…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Jasper Land Co. v. City of JasperSupreme Court of Alabama · 1930
  2. Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Town of BoazSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
  3. Goodman v. City of BirminghamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1931
  4. Hooper v. Peters Mineral Land Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1923
  5. City of Bessemer v. SchanzSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. City of Birmingham v. TerrellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1935
  2. Ex Parte FinleySupreme Court of Alabama · 1944
  3. Blewett v. StallworthSupreme Court of Alabama · 1946
  4. Cowan Inv. Corp. v. City of FlorenceDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 1935
  5. Taylor v. LaddSupreme Court of Alabama · 1935

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