Steinhart v. Gregory
Supreme Court of Alabama
: Appeal from Marengo Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Edward J. Gilder. Bill by Etliel Steinhart and others, against B. P. Gregory and others, for an accounting, and to impress a trust upon certain property, and for general relief. Prom a decree sustaining demurrers to the bill complainant appeals.
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: Appeal from Marengo Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Edward J. Gilder. Bill by Etliel Steinhart and others, against B. P. Gregory and others, for an accounting, and to impress a trust upon certain property, and for general relief. Prom a decree sustaining demurrers to the bill complainant appeals. The statute governing leases by guardian of the lands of the ward will be found in sections 4379, 4380, 4381. Equity has jurisdiction regardless of the legal remedies to grant relief, and force a trust upon the conscience of Gregory. ■ — Johnson v. Amberson, 140 Ala. 342; Robinson v.…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
The bill alleges that the complainants (one of whom is of age, and the other two recently having had their disability of nonage removed) own a plantation in Greene county; that J. D., and Albert Stein-hart, who were guardians of the complainants, in the year 1909 leased said plantation to Phil A. Barton for the years 1910-1911, receiving from him a note for the payment of 20 bales of cotton for each year; that said lease was made without any order from the probate court; that said note was made payable to “A. Steinhart, Ex.”; that said Albert Steinhart borrowed $2,000 from one of the…
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