Murphree v. Smith

JONES, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree rendered in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, in Equity, in favor of the complainants-appellees, John A. Smith and Nina D. Smith, and against the respondents-appellants, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Murphree and the heirs at law of J. Floyd Davidson, deceased.

In their original bill of complaint the Smiths 1 sought an accounting from the Murphrees under the terms and provisions of two leases made and entered into by the Murphrees and J. Floyd Davidson on October 3, 1962. The bill averred that the property (some 157 acres in Jackson County, Alabama) which…