Graham v. Graham
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Leon McCord, Judge. Bill in equity by D. M. Graham and others against Peter H. Graham and others, for the sale of certain lands for division and for other purposes. From a decree denying the claim of respondents to a portion of the land, and directing its sale for division, respondents appeal.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Leon McCord, Judge. Bill in equity by D. M. Graham and others against Peter H. Graham and others, for the sale of certain lands for division and for other purposes. From a decree denying the claim of respondents to a portion of the land, and directing its sale for division, respondents appeal. The bill of complaint is filed by several of the children and legal heirs of Mildred A. Graham, primarily to secure a sale of certain lands lying in Autauga and Montgomery counties, of which it is alleged she was- the owner at the time of her death in 190S,…
1Per curiam
On a former appeal in this case (Graham v. Graham, 202 Ala. 56. 79 South. 450), it was held, upon the allegations of the original bill, that the deed of trust executed by William A. Graham, Sr., in 1875, to his wife, Mildred A. Graham, through the medium of Sims, as trustee, had never ripened into a title in Mildred A., but remained a mortgage security merely, the payment or satisfaction of which would be presumed, as a matter of law, from the lapse of more than 20 years after the law day thereof without any countervailing recognition of the existence of 'the debt, by payments thereon or…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Graham v. GrahamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1918
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