Morris & Morris v. Tuskaloosa Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Tuskaloosa. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on the 9th December, 1886, by the Tuskaloosa Manufacturing Company, a private corporation organized under the general statutes, against Joseph Morris and Joseph Morris, Jr., partners in trade doing business under the firm name of Morris & Morris; and sought to perpetually enjoin the defendants from carrying on a mercantile business in the house and lot occupied…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Tuskaloosa. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on the 9th December, 1886, by the Tuskaloosa Manufacturing Company, a private corporation organized under the general statutes, against Joseph Morris and Joseph Morris, Jr., partners in trade doing business under the firm name of Morris & Morris; and sought to perpetually enjoin the defendants from carrying on a mercantile business in the house and lot occupied by them, 'which they had bought from one W. L. Cree, and which was part of a large tract of land once owned by Baugh,…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
— Baugh, Kennedy & Co., copartners, owned a large tract of land in the country, on which they had erected and were operating cotton-mills, a private enterprise. They sold to one Cree a half acre of their lands, described by metes and bounds — the contract of sale expressing certain reservations in the grantors. Two deeds to Cree are found in the transcript. The first bears date December 10, 1875, and purports to have beén executed by Baugh, Kennedy & Co. in their partnership name. It is, in form, an ordinary deed of bargain and sale, with covenants of warranty implied from the words “grant,…
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