Legal Opinion
Merchants Nat. Bank of Mobile v. Cotnam
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided January 22, 1948No. 1 Div. 301PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FOSTER, Justice..This proceeding is for the purpose of testing the validity of a claim which was filed by Mrs Ethel W. Cotnam against the estate of Thomas S. Hunter, deceased, in the Mobile Probate Court. The claim was filed within the statutory period of six months. Section 211, Title 61, Code.
The beginning of this contest was a petition and notice filed by the administrator of the estate of Thomas S. Hunter, the Merchants National Bank of Mobile, making application to the probate court “to hear and pass on the validity of the claim filed by Ethel W. Cotnam against said estate on, to-wit,…
2Cases cited56 opinions
- Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1911
- Manning v. PippenSupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
- Bolman v. OverallSupreme Court of Alabama · 1886
- Burdine v. Burdine's Ex'orSupreme Court of Virginia · 1900
- Cowin v. SalmonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1943
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Ethel West Cotnam v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
- Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc. v. SmallSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
- Cotnam v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1957
- Humphrey v. BoschungSupreme Court of Alabama · 1971
- Jones v. CommissionerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
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