Laird v. Columbia Loan & Investment Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; Hugh A. Locke, Judge. Bill by the Columbia Loan & Investment Company against William A. R. Laird and others to enjoin the prosecution of ejectment actions. From a decree refusing to dissolve temporary injunctions, and overruling demurrers to the bill, respondents appeal.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; Hugh A. Locke, Judge. Bill by the Columbia Loan & Investment Company against William A. R. Laird and others to enjoin the prosecution of ejectment actions. From a decree refusing to dissolve temporary injunctions, and overruling demurrers to the bill, respondents appeal. The complainant does not connect itself with the title at all, in the sense of being a bona fide purchaser. 113 Ala. 419, 21 South. 403. Not being a purchaser of the legal title it is charged with notice of all the infirmities in the title. 2 Story’s Equity, subsec. 1502. No…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
By the bill in this cause, filed January 21, 1918, the complainant (appellee),. Columbia Loan & Investment Company, seeks to enjoin defendants, who are the heirs at law of A. H. Laird, deceased, from' prosecuting actions of ejectment for the recovery of land which had been in tbe ownership and possession of their ancestors at and before-the time of his death in 1876. By their actions at law defendants are seeking to enforce the legal title which descended to them from A. H. Laird. The date at which those-actions were filed is not stated in the pleadings. Complainant traces its claim back…
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