Alger-Sullivan Lumber Co. v. Union Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Connecuh. County; John D. Leigh, Judge. Bill by the .Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company against the Union Trust Company and others for the abatement of the purchase of a certain land and accounting as to the amounts still due and the amount to be deducted therefrom, because of failure of title to some of the land. From a decree sustaining demurrers to the bill complainant appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Connecuh. County; John D. Leigh, Judge. Bill by the .Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company against the Union Trust Company and others for the abatement of the purchase of a certain land and accounting as to the amounts still due and the amount to be deducted therefrom, because of failure of title to some of the land. From a decree sustaining demurrers to the bill complainant appeals. The contentions as presented may be grouped as follows, and are set forth by demurrers, the first by demurrers G, X-I, and J: “G. Because the bill fails to allege that either the title or…
1Opinion of the Court
SAYRE, J7
The-facts shown by the bill and exhibits may be stated as follows: Complainant, the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company, an Alabama corporation, on May 25, 1911, entered into an agreement in writing with numerous nonresident persons, associated together as the Michigan Land Company, by which the Land Company agreed to sell, complainant to buy, at least 40,923 acres of timber land and the timber on at least 4,777 additional acres, “all acreage to be computed according to the government survey,” lying in the counties of Butler, Conscuh, and Monroe, at and for the sum of $2,000,000,…
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