Meyer v. Calera Land Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Shelby. Heard before the Hon. Richaed B. Kelly. The appellant, Ben Meyer, filed a bill against the appellants the Calera Land Co., Joseph Goetter, trustee, and others.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Shelby. Heard before the Hon. Richaed B. Kelly. The appellant, Ben Meyer, filed a bill against the appellants the Calera Land Co., Joseph Goetter, trustee, and others. The purpose of the bill was to have a judgment rendered in an action of ejectment reformed, so as to include certain lands and that it be decreed that the respondent’s title to the lands described in the bill was,, by said judgment, divested out of them and invested in the claimant, and that the respondents be enjoined from claiming title to said lands., The defendants answered the bill and two…
1Opinion of the CourtShajrpe, J.
Complainant’s only claim to the land which forms the subject-matter of this suit grows out of proceedings had in an. action of ejectment in which he was a defendant. The facts relating to that action are but meagrely stated in the bill, but therefrom it appears that at some previous time not stated, suit was brought by one ITolt (who may have been, but is not alleged to have been in privity with defendants in this suit), against complainant’s tenant in possession, for whom, complainant was substituted as defendant. From what is averred it is inferable though not distinctly alleged that as…
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