Legal Opinion

Sims v. City of Birmingham

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided October 19, 1950No. 6 Div. 771PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Per curiam

This suit involves a strip of land between Blocks 444 and 473, according to the present plan of the City of Birmingham, which .strip fronts eighty feet on the south side •of Sixth Avenue, South, and which runs back southward between said blocks 255 feet. The appellant, Henry Graham Sims, •who was the complainant below, claims ownership of said strip and the improvements thereon by devise from his grand- • mother, Mrs. Ella M. Graham, deceased. The appellee, the City of Birmingham, the respondent below, claims that said strip of land has been dedicated as a public street.

Benjamin P.…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1912
  2. McFadden & Bro. v. HendersonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1900
  3. Grayson v. MuckleroySupreme Court of Alabama · 1929
  4. Clark v. WhitfieldSupreme Court of Alabama · 1925
  5. Crowson v. CodySupreme Court of Alabama · 1926

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Mitchell v. AustinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1957
  2. Suggs v. Alabama Power CompanySupreme Court of Alabama · 1960
  3. Duncan v. RossuckSupreme Court of Alabama · 1993
  4. Ex Parte SnowSupreme Court of Alabama · 1987
  5. Sullivan v. Walther Builders, Inc.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1986

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