Pollard v. Cocke
Supreme Court of Alabama
EkRoe to the Circuit Court of Tallapoosa. Tried before the Hon. E. Pickens. 1. One of Pollard’s titles-consists of a deed from Joseph G. Lindsey, the patentee of the lands in controversy, to Thomas Huggins, dated the 27th February, 18-10, recorded 3rd March, 1810, in Macon county, and in Tallapoosa county, 5th June, 1817; a judgment rendered in the Circuit Court of Macon county, 24th October, 1842, in favor of Knox v. said Huggins; an •alias fieri facias of June, 1817; and a…
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EkRoe to the Circuit Court of Tallapoosa. Tried before the Hon. E. Pickens. 1. One of Pollard’s titles-consists of a deed from Joseph G. Lindsey, the patentee of the lands in controversy, to Thomas Huggins, dated the 27th February, 18-10, recorded 3rd March, 1810, in Macon county, and in Tallapoosa county, 5th June, 1817; a judgment rendered in the Circuit Court of Macon county, 24th October, 1842, in favor of Knox v. said Huggins; an •alias fieri facias of June, 1817; and a levy and sale of said lands to Pollard at the court house door of Tallapoosa county, in September, 1847; and also a…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
This was an action of ejectment brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiff, to recover certain real estate, situate in Tallapoosa county. The presiding judge charged the jury, that if they believed the evidence, they should -find for the plaintiff in the court below ; so that the legal sufficiency of the proof, conceding its correctness, to entitle the plaintiff below to maintain the action, and whether if such title be shown, it is paramount to that of the defendant, are questions for our revision.
The case was tried upon an agreed state of facts substantially as follows : That…
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