Gravlee v. Lamkin
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Walker. Tried before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. On 3d day of April, 1895, Mrs.N. M. Lamkin, the appellee, filed the bill of complaint in this cause against the appellant, Harvey J. Gravlee, to declare and enforce a trust lien or equitable charge on the lands described in the bill for the sum of $648, evidenced by a promissory waive note or bond executed by defendant and his wife, N. N. Gravlee, to complainant, on the 6th day of April, 1893, due…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Walker. Tried before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. On 3d day of April, 1895, Mrs.N. M. Lamkin, the appellee, filed the bill of complaint in this cause against the appellant, Harvey J. Gravlee, to declare and enforce a trust lien or equitable charge on the lands described in the bill for the sum of $648, evidenced by a promissory waive note or bond executed by defendant and his wife, N. N. Gravlee, to complainant, on the 6th day of April, 1893, due 3d day of February, 1894. The grounds on which the alleged trust lien or equitable charge is based, as averred in the…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The bill in which the appellee was complainant and the appellant respondent, was filed to enforce the payment of a promissory note made by the respondent and his wife, as a charge on lands particularly described. As to parties, the bill was properly constituted, and the demurrers upon this ground, were not well taken. The legal estate in the lands originally resided in William Gravlee, and were by him conveyed to G. W. Gravlee, who, by an instrument in writing cotemporaneously executed, declared the- consideration of the conveyance, and the uses and trusts for which it was executed.…
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