Roberts v. Mathews
Supreme Court of Alabama
Arrean from tlie City Court of! Talladega, iu Equity. Tried before the: Hon. G. K. Miller. The .bill in this case was filed by the appellee, T. J. Mathews, against the. appellants, Kate Q. Roberts, Addie McOaa., «Josephine M. Keith and J. M. Hendricks.
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Arrean from tlie City Court of! Talladega, iu Equity. Tried before the: Hon. G. K. Miller. The .bill in this case was filed by the appellee, T. J. Mathews, against the. appellants, Kate Q. Roberts, Addie McOaa., «Josephine M. Keith and J. M. Hendricks. The complainant, as owner of and who was seized in fee of tot number seven as designated in a plat of section 16, in township: 22 and Range- — , in Talladega County, Alabama, on the 28th day of October, 1902, filed his original hill in the city court of Talladega, setting up such ownership and alleging that ini accordance with an act of the…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
The bill in this case was filed to abate an alleged public nuisance. That courts of equity have jurisdiction in such matters, is a proposition' not open to question. The averments of the bill as to ownership and special damage are sufficient to authorize its maintenance by the complainant individually. — Whaley v. Wilson, 112 Ala. 627; 9 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law (2nd ed.), pp. 63, 64.
It is well settled by decisions of this court, that where a person plats land and lays off lots according to such plat, and makes sale of one- or more of such lots with reference thereto, he irrevocably dedicates the…
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