Trammell v. Craddock
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Tallapoosa. Tried before the Hon. S. K. MoSpadden. The bill was filed by appellee against the administrators of the estate of the lessor and his heirs at law for restoration of possession of the leased property, and for an accounting as to rents and the money paid by the lessor on the judgment recovered against him in the ejectment suit.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Tallapoosa. Tried before the Hon. S. K. MoSpadden. The bill was filed by appellee against the administrators of the estate of the lessor and his heirs at law for restoration of possession of the leased property, and for an accounting as to rents and the money paid by the lessor on the judgment recovered against him in the ejectment suit. The defendants demurred separately, the grounds of their demurrers, so far as pertinent to the points decided, being, that the facts averred in the bill showed there was an adequate defense at law, that the contract of the…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
The averments of the bill show, that about January 1st, 1887, appellee, Craddock, leased from one D. U. Trammell a certain farm for a period of ten years for a consideration of five hundred dqllars to be paid cash in advance, that he paid the money in advance, and was put into possession of the. farm, which is particularly described in the bill. The bill avers that the lessor, Trammell, executed a receipt for the payment of “the five hundred dollars for the rent of the above described lands for said ten years a copy of which is hereto attached marked Exhibit A, and prayed to be taken as a…
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