Bailes v. Daly
Supreme Court of Alabama
Apppeai. from Limestone Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. H. Simpson. William F. Daily and William T. Bailes file their bill seeking to partition certain land among the joint owners thereof.
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Apppeai. from Limestone Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. H. Simpson. William F. Daily and William T. Bailes file their bill seeking to partition certain land among the joint owners thereof. It is filed against the other heirs at law of Thomas Bailes, and charges that he left certain lands, describing them, of which he died seized and possessed; that he left surviving him a widow of his second marriage, who occupied these lands as her homestead during her life, and who before her death conveyed them to her children-by said Thomas Bailes. Complainants are the children by the first wife, who…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
The bill in this case was filed for partition of land set apart in 1898 as exempt to the widow of Thomas J. Bailes, who died in March 1884. He had been twice married, and the bill was filed by the children of the first marriage, a year after the death of the second wife, against the children of his second marriage, to- whom the widow, their mother, had conveyed the property after it had been set. apart to her. The bill avers that there had been no administration upon the estate of Thomas J.- Bailes, nor any judicial ascertainment of its insolvency.
Upon the death of the ancestor the legal…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- O'Rear v. JacksonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1899
- Shamblin v. HallSupreme Court of Alabama · 1898
- De Armond v. WhitakerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
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