Mobile County v. Knapp
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Chancery Court, Mobile County; Thomas H. Smith, Chancellor. , Suit by Hattie B. Knapp against Mobile County and others. From a decree for complainant, defendants appeal. >
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The bill is to enjoin a trespass alleged to be continuous. The complainant avers that she is in the peaceable possession of the real estate described; that during the early part of the year 1907, the county of Mobile, through its duly qualified and elected agents, the hoard of revenue and road commissioners, trespassed upon the land described, and “laid out and constructed a road commonly called the Ben Hamilton road”; that at the time said road was built, the title to the land over which the same was constructed was vested in the Unit ed States government. Complainant further avers that the…
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