Hagan Bros. v. Beaty
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal’from Circuit Court, Coosa County; A. H. Alston, Judge. Bill to quiet title by T. J. Beaty against Hagan Bros, and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The original bill was filed by Beaty, appellee, against the appellants. It sought to quiet the title of the complainant to certain lands- in Coosa county, Ala. Code, § 5443 et seq. The defendants (appellants) propounded their claim that they held a mortgage on these lands, executed by complainant and his wife to them. The answer was constituted a cross-hill, and foreclosure of the mortgage was prayed. The court awarded the complainant relief by canceling the instrument asserted through the answer, and this, on the ground that the instrument was not efficiently executed, there being no valid…
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