Powell v. Boon & Booth
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was a motion by the appellants, to have the jndgment of affirmance, rendered in this cause by this court, at the June term, 1868, vacated and declared null and void, and the entry thereof, expunged from the records of the court. The grounds upon which the motion is based, appear in the opinion of the court. The validity of the reconstruction acts of congress, in all respects, is taken for granted, and is not treated as an open question in this case.
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This was a motion by the appellants, to have the jndgment of affirmance, rendered in this cause by this court, at the June term, 1868, vacated and declared null and void, and the entry thereof, expunged from the records of the court. The grounds upon which the motion is based, appear in the opinion of the court. The validity of the reconstruction acts of congress, in all respects, is taken for granted, and is not treated as an open question in this case. It is the interpretation of these acts, that here claims attention. As was substantially asserted in Hegdon’s Case, 3 Eep. 8, by all the…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, C. J.
Lewis Stoudenmire, in his life time, was the guardian of Catharine A. Hoffman, of Autauga county, the plaintiff in this motion.
After his death, the defendants, Boon & Booth, were appointed his administrators by the probate court of said county of Autauga.
On the final settlement of the accounts of said Stoudenmire, as such guardian, made by him in the probate court of said county, the court, by its decree, allowed him a credit for the sum of three thousand nine hundred dollars. This credit was allowed upon the ground that on the third of March, 1864, he had invested that sum, belonging to his…
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