Evans v. English
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Lowndes Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. H. Austill. The original bill in this cause was filed by JaneE. Evans, against C. J. English, Alice English, his wife; James M. Pearson, Levystein & Simon, and sought the foreclosure of a mortgage executed by C. J. English to her on the 13th of January, 1874, on, certain horses and mules and other personal property, and the crops to be grown by him on a plantation known as the English-Pearson place, in Lowndes county.
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Appeal from Lowndes Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. H. Austill. The original bill in this cause was filed by JaneE. Evans, against C. J. English, Alice English, his wife; James M. Pearson, Levystein & Simon, and sought the foreclosure of a mortgage executed by C. J. English to her on the 13th of January, 1874, on, certain horses and mules and other personal property, and the crops to be grown by him on a plantation known as the English-Pearson place, in Lowndes county. All the defendants answered. Mrs. English averred that the property mortgaged was her statutory separate estate, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtBbickell, C. J.
These are cross-appeals from a decree foreclosing a mortgage executed to the appellant, Jane E. Evans, by C. J. English, and adjusting conflicting claims and liens to the mortgaged property. The property consisted of mules, horses, cows, farming implements, a gin, cotton press, and the crops of cotton and corn grown by the mortgagor in 1874. It was all, except the crops, claimed by the wife of the mortgagor as her statutory separate estate, and the first inquiry is, whether any part of it, and what part, was her estate.
The husband and wife were married in 1869, and soon thereafter the husband…
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