Haynes v. Farley
Supreme Court of Alabama
In error to a decree of the Circuit Court of Montgomery county, exercising Chancery jurisdiction. This was a bill, filed by the testator of the one of the defendants in error, Farley, to enjoin a judgment at law. The bill stated that Pinkston, the testator, with others, previously to the filing of the bill, had executed to Haynes, a bond, conditioned for the execution of titles to certain lands, within five years after its date.
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In error to a decree of the Circuit Court of Montgomery county, exercising Chancery jurisdiction. This was a bill, filed by the testator of the one of the defendants in error, Farley, to enjoin a judgment at law. The bill stated that Pinkston, the testator, with others, previously to the filing of the bill, had executed to Haynes, a bond, conditioned for the execution of titles to certain lands, within five years after its date. It charged, that Haynes well knew, that the lands sold to him, were the property of a company; and that the title to them, was ultimately to be obtained from the…
1Opinion of the CourtHopkins, C. J.
— On the twenty-sixth of April, eighteen hundred and nineteen, the plaintiff in error, received a- bond in the penal sum of seven hundred dollars, payable to himself, and made by James R. Pinkston, and several other persons. According to the condition of the bond, it was to be void, if the ob-ligors should, within five years from the date thereof, *531make to the plaintiff and his heirs, a sufficient deed for the land described in the condition. At March term, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, of the Circuit Court of Montgomery county, the plaintiff obtained a judgment at law against Pinkston,…
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