Legal Opinion

First National Bank v. Tompkins

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided May 22, 1893No. 109PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Alabama. In Equity. Bill by Henry B. Tompkins against the First National Bank of Sheffield, Ala., and Charles D. Woodson to enforce and foreclose a vendor’s lien. Defendant Woodson having died pending the suit, Bichard W. Austin, administrator, was substituted in his stead. Decree for complainant. . Defendants appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

PARDEE, Circuit Judge.

On the 15th December, 1889, the appellee filed a bill in the circuit court against the appellants to *21enforce and foreclose a vendor’s lien on one undivided half interest in and to lots numbered 13 and 14, block No. 82, on Montgomery avenue, in the city of Sheffield, county of Colbert, in the state of Alabama; and therein alleged that, being the owner in Ml fee simple of said one undivided half interest, he did, on the oth April, 1887, or some date subsequent thereto, execute a deed to said one undivided half Interest to Charles D. Woodson, then president of the First…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Bayley v. GreenleafSupreme Court of the United States · 1822
  2. Wells v. MorrowSupreme Court of Alabama · 1861
  3. Boyd v. BeckSupreme Court of Alabama · 1857
  4. Winchester v. Baltimore & Susquehanna R. R.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1853
  5. Ware v. CurrySupreme Court of Alabama · 1880

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. American Nat. Bank of Nashville v. MillerCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1911
  2. Levy & Cohn Mule Co. v. KauffmanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1902
  3. Lawson v. County Board of Public Instruction Ex Rel. AlfordSupreme Court of Florida · 1935
  4. Board of Levee Com'rs of Tensas Basin Levee Dist. v. Tensas Delta Land Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1913
  5. In re Senoia Duck MillsDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1912

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