Merchants National Bank of Mobile v. Morris

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

The controversy now before this Court is over four acres of more or less “wild” land, in Sec. 38, Township 4 South, Range 1 East, in Baldwin County, Alabama. This property has been the subject matter of litigation on at least four previous occasions.

In 1927, the Circuit Court of Baldwin County, Alabama, in Equity, made and entered a decree quieting title to the land in question in Old Spanish Fort Development Company, a Corporation. There was no appeal from that decree. The Merchants National Bank of Mobile et al. are the successors in title to Old Spanish Fort…