Quinn v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Apprat, from tlie Circuit Court of DeKalb. Tried before tbe Hon. J. A. Bilbro. This was a statutory real action in the nature of ejectment, brought by the appellee, George H. Campbell, as administrator of the estate of Adeline S. Quinn, deceased, 'against tlie appellant George H. Quinn; in which he seeks to recover certain lands specifically described in the complaint.
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Apprat, from tlie Circuit Court of DeKalb. Tried before tbe Hon. J. A. Bilbro. This was a statutory real action in the nature of ejectment, brought by the appellee, George H. Campbell, as administrator of the estate of Adeline S. Quinn, deceased, 'against tlie appellant George H. Quinn; in which he seeks to recover certain lands specifically described in the complaint. The plaintiff bases his right to recover the lands sued for upon the fact that he was the duly appointed and qualified administrator of the estate of Adeline S. Quinn, who died seized and possessed of the lands in suit. The…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
The tract of land sued for, comprising thirty-eight (38) acres, was owned by the wife of the defendant at the date of her death in May, 1897. It was her homestead at that time and had been since 1893, and was all the land owned by her. Its value did not exceed $500, and her personal property at the time of her death was of less value than $1,000. She left surviving her only one child, an infant, about three or four *282weeks old, an offspring of her marriage with the defendant. This infant survived its mother about three of four week, leaving as its only heir at law, the defendant. After the…
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