Williams Investment Co. v. Pugh
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ait’BAL from the Circuit Court of Covington. Tried, before tlie Hon. Joi-in P. Hubbard. This was a common law action of ejectment brought by tiie Williams Investment Company against the appellee, ;Jolm Pugh.
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Ait’BAL from the Circuit Court of Covington. Tried, before tlie Hon. Joi-in P. Hubbard. This was a common law action of ejectment brought by tiie Williams Investment Company against the appellee, ;Jolm Pugh. The demises were laid in nine different persons and plaintiff relied for a recovery upon the different conveyances to said persons as follows: 1. A eertifiate of t-lie lauds in controversy front the General Land Office at Washington, I). 0., approved by the Secretary of the Interior, April 24th, 1893, to the Mobile and Girard Kailroad Company for the use and benefit of the Vankirk Land…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
Action of ejectment. There are two questions presented for decision by the record in this case. The first is,'does the plaintiff-show a legal title to the lands in controversy? It traces title through *349mesne conveyances, regularly executed, back to tbe Vankirk Land & Construction Company. That company derived its title under the. act oi Congress approved September 29, 1890 (IT. S. Stat. at Large, 496-439), evidenced by the certificate of Lamoreux, commissioner, of date1 April 24, 1893, made, in pursuance (if said act. The effect of the act of Congerss was to divest the legal title to these…
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