Legal Opinion

Winston v. Browning

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1878PublishedCited by 32 opinions

Appeal from Chancery Court of Sumter. Heard before James Cobbs, Esq., special chancellor. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the CourtBblckell, C. J.

The facts of the case as shown by the record, are, that on the 18th day of January, 1873, Anthony W. Dillard bargained and sold to the appellant James M. Winston, a tract of land situate in Sumter county, known as the “ Lacy Place,” with a gin stand on the place, for the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars, three thousand dollars payable in cash, and for the remainder, a credit until the first of January, 1874, was given. The land was subject to a mortgage executed by one Herndon, the vendor of Dillard. The note of Winston for the part of the purchase-money not paid in cash, it was…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Harrison v. TalbotCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1834
  2. Stebbins v. EddyU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island · 1827
  3. Blackwell v. Old Colony RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
  4. Noble v. GooginsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
  5. Orchard v. Hughes. Id. v. IdSupreme Court of the United States · 1864

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3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Sayre v. Elyton Land Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1882
  2. Hodges v. DennySupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
  3. Corley v. VizardSupreme Court of Alabama · 1919
  4. Campbell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1941
  5. Rhodes v. SchofieldSupreme Court of Alabama · 1955

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