Bank for Savings & Trusts v. Jefferson Development Co.

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

As we understand, the bill of complaint as last amended is not a statutory bill to quiet title, but is by one in possession to cancel certain instruments of rec-cord as being invalid, but which show the legal title to the land to be in the respondent and which requires evidence aliunde to show the invalidity of said instruments. King v. Artman, 225 Ala. 569, 144 So. 442, and many cases there cited. Hence, the argument that the bill does not conform to the statutory requirements, section 9905 of the Code of 1923, is inapt.

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