Gulf Red Cedar Co. v. Crenshaw
Supreme Court of Alabama
Bill for Accounting, Discovery in Aid Thereof and for Injunction. Appeal from Butler Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. L. D. Gardner. Bill by Lonisa E. Crenshaw and others against the Gulf Bed Cedar Company for an accounting, discovery in aid thereof and for an injunction to prevent further removal and cutting of timber. Decree for complainant and respondent appeals.
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Bill for Accounting, Discovery in Aid Thereof and for Injunction. Appeal from Butler Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. L. D. Gardner. Bill by Lonisa E. Crenshaw and others against the Gulf Bed Cedar Company for an accounting, discovery in aid thereof and for an injunction to prevent further removal and cutting of timber. Decree for complainant and respondent appeals. The main question to be decided is whether the alteration of the deed executed by Thomas C. Crenshaw to his children in 1873, by which the power to manage and control the real estate was reserved to himself during his life,…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
This case has been often before this court, and is reported in 131 Ala. 117, 30 South. 466, 90 Am. St. Rep. 22, 138 Ala. 134, 35 South. 50, and 148 Ala. 343, 42 South. 564, wherein most of the legal *611questions, then presented by the pleading, were settled. We agree with counsel for the appellant, that the prime question to be settled by thi,s appeal is whether or not the deed from Thos. C. Crenshaw to his children had been delivered before the alteration of same on June 1st of the year 1873. Counsel for the appellees contend that this question may be well pretermitted upon the theory that it…
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