Shortridge v. Southern Mineral Land Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Bibb Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas H. Smith. Bill by the Southern Mineral Land Company against W. W. Shortridge and others to quiet title to land, and to divest the title out of respondents and vest it in complainant. Prom a decree overruling demurrers to the bill, respondents appeal.
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Appeal from Bibb Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas H. Smith. Bill by the Southern Mineral Land Company against W. W. Shortridge and others to quiet title to land, and to divest the title out of respondents and vest it in complainant. Prom a decree overruling demurrers to the bill, respondents appeal. The bill avers that on June 13, 1858, one George D. Shortridge executed and delivered to the Shelby Coal Company an instrument in writing, a copy of which is hereto attached, marked Exhibit A, and is as follows: “State of Alabama, Dallas County. Know all men by these presents,' that I,…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J. —
The instrument, a copy of which is attached to the original bill, and which bears date June 30, 1858 (and which the reporter will set-out), conveyed, between the Shelby Iron Company and George D. Shortridge, a perfect equity in the lands referred to in the instrument, and which lands are described by government numbers in the bill. This instrument *663recites that the grantee had paid the grantor in full for the land, and, while it did not convey the legal title to the land, it did convey, as between the grantor and the grantee, a perfect equity in said lands to the grantee.…
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- Davis v. Vandiver & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1909
- Lady Ensley Coal, Iron & R.R. v. GordonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1908
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