Legal Opinion

Lindsey v. Hamlet

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided February 17, 1938No. 5 Div. 265PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a bill in equity filed by J. C. Lindsey and his wife, Mrs. Dalton Lindsey, against T. J. Hamlet, the father of Mrs. Lindsey, and seeks' to have a deed which they executed to him declared to be a mortgage, and that they be allowed to redeem the land in an exercise of the equity of redemption.

There was an appeal to this court from a ruling on demurrer to the bill, and its equity sustained on well-known principles. Lindsey v. Hamlet, 233 Ala. 362, 171 So. 629.

The suit was then heard on the facts, and the court found that there was no mutual agreement expressed or implied…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. West v. HendrixSupreme Court of Alabama · 1856
  2. Smith v. SmithSupreme Court of Alabama · 1907
  3. Turner v. WilkinsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1882
  4. Douglass v. MoodySupreme Court of Alabama · 1885
  5. Knaus v. DreherSupreme Court of Alabama · 1887

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3Cited by12 opinions

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  2. Cousins v. CrawfordSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
  3. Gentry v. GentryNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1955
  4. Livingston v. TapscottSupreme Court of Alabama · 1991
  5. Burleigh v. MillerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1984

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