Bowles v. Lowery
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Fayette Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Bernard Harwood. Ejectment by Mary Lowery against John L. Bowles. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion.
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Appeal from Fayette Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Bernard Harwood. Ejectment by Mary Lowery against John L. Bowles. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion. The following are the charges referred to in the opinion: “If the jury is reasonably satisfied from all the evidence that plaintiff’s husband acquired actual possession of the land sued for in 1871 or 1872, and that her husband kept continuous possession, claiming it as his own, cutting timber thereon, such as sawings, timber, firewood and cross-ties, and cleared a portion of said…
1Opinion of the CourtMcclellan, J.
Statutory ejectment, by appellee against appellant. The tract sued for contains 40 acres, described by government subcall of that area. The plaintiff’s assertion of right to. the land is rested solely upon adverse possession, through the right of her hus*607hand (since deceased), without any color of title being shown. Indeed, she testified: “I never had any kind of deed to this land from my sons or from my husband, or from any one else. My husband (deceased) never had any deed that I knew of. I never bought it from any one.”
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- Dinkins v. LathamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1907
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