Crompton v. Vasser
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ereor 4o the Chancery Court of Dallas. Tried before the TIon. W. W. Mason. The bill was filed by John Crompton, G> M. Bender and Henry T. Crompton and wife against Littleberry Vasser as executor of John E. Vasser, deceased.
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Ereor 4o the Chancery Court of Dallas. Tried before the TIon. W. W. Mason. The bill was filed by John Crompton, G> M. Bender and Henry T. Crompton and wife against Littleberry Vasser as executor of John E. Vasser, deceased. It alleges that John Crompton, Bender and John E. Vasser were bound, prior to May, 24,1839, and at that time, as securities for said Henry T» ■Crompton, on two promissory notes, each for about $1,000, one 'due to the State Bank at Tuscaloosa, the other to the Branch Bank at Mobile; that on or about May 24-, 1839, the sheriff of Wilcox county being about to levy executions…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
The complainants in the bill are John Cromp-ton, (who died pending the suit,) Griffin M. Bender and Henry T. Crompton and his wife, and the bill having been dismissed by the Chancellor, the complainants are now plaintiffs in error. We will speak first of the lands in Wilcox, as to which the bill alleges that there was an agreement between the complainants and Dr. John E. Yasser, pursuant to which these lands were purchased by him, partly with his own and partly with John Crompton’s money, for the purposes mentioned in the bill, and sold by him to Maxwell, by consent of the complainants, in…
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