Hanrick v. Hanrick

Bonner, Associate Justice.

In this case we have derived valuable aid from the elaborate briefs of counsel.

It is presented under rule 59 of this court, under the following agreement:

“It is agreed that the material allegations in plaintiffs’ amended original petition, and in defendant Edward G. Hanrick’s exceptions to the same, were substantially as follows, to wit:

“Plaintiffs alleged:

“That Edward Hanrick, the ancestor of both plaintiffs and defendant, died intestate and without issue [having never married], in Montgomery county, Alabama, in the year 1865, the sole owner of the lands described…