Grant v. Nations
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ejectment. Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. C. C. Nesmith. Ejectment by W. J. Grant and others against A. L. Nations. Judgment for defendant and plaintiffs appeal.
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Ejectment. Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. C. C. Nesmith. Ejectment by W. J. Grant and others against A. L. Nations. Judgment for defendant and plaintiffs appeal. The book known and designated as “Record of Tax Sales, No. 3,” was not admissible in evidence for the purpose of showing that there had been a sale of the property described in the complaint for taxes due to state and county. — Acts of Alabama, 1898-1899, page 120; Code of 1907, Section 2310; Code of 1907, Section 2325; Trotter v. Moog, 150 Ala. 460; Vadebonooeur v. Hannon, 159 Ala. 617. The deed from the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
Statutory ejectment. . From a judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal.
An essential (to their recovery) link in the chain of plaintiffs’ asserted title to the land in question is the deed from William A. Evers to Lee White, of date March 2, 1907. The testimony shows, without dispute, that on that date and prior thereto the land in controversy was held, adversely, by the McGimseys (defendants), and “that neither of the plaintiffs, nor said Lee *86White, their grantor, nor the said William A. Evers, grantor of the said Lee White, had been in possession of the property since the 7th of September,…
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