Schaffer v. Lavretta
Supreme Court of Alabama
APPEAL from Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before Hon. Huriosco Austell. The opinion states the case. Defendant Giovanni Lorenzo Lavretta is the person called in the opinion and generally known as Lawrence.
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APPEAL from Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before Hon. Huriosco Austell. The opinion states the case. Defendant Giovanni Lorenzo Lavretta is the person called in the opinion and generally known as Lawrence. Mere acquiescence by one infant, for a period short of that necessary to create a bar under the statute of limitations, will not prevent him from repudiating his deed and recovering his property. — Tucleer v. Mordecai, 10 Peters, 65; 17 Wendell, 44. This is especially true of a married woman. Under the-terms of the trust deed the legal title is outstanding in Lafargue, and those claiming…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
Appellants, two married daughters of the late Foloe Pinta and his wife Marie Victorine, having by the death of their mother in 1870, come into possession of the lot in controversy, on the south side of Dauphin street in Mobile — one of them in 1862 and the other in-January, 1863 — -jointly with their respective husbands, sold and conveyed the property for cash in Confederate currency, to Molloy & Horgan, who afterwards tore down the inferior store-house then on the lot and built a large one three stories high in its stead; and having used and occupied the property, until the year 1873, they…
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