Marx v. Nelms
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Perry. Tried before tbe Hob. John Mooee. cited Blair v. Murphy, 81 Ala. 454 cited Upclvwrch v. Norstoorthy, 15 Ala. 709 ; .Abernathy v. Bankhead, 71 Ala. 193; Carpenter v. Going, 20 Ala. 587; Mitcham v. Moore, 73 Ala. 542; Loeb v. Richardson, 74 Ala. 311; Tayloev. Bush, 75 Ala. 432.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
M. E. C. Weaver lived on a plantation and cultivated a crop of cotton thereon in 1889. He died, intestate, August 17, 1889. At that time tbe cultivation of tbe crop was practically completed, but its growth bad not ceased. It was in tbe fields, and ungatbered. Most of these *305facts are shown in tbe testimony. The others are common knowledge. The sons of deceased — one of them residing on the plantation, but on another part of it — then gathered the cotton, and sold it to the appellant, Marx. This sale was in August, 1889. The bales of cotton were branded in the name of the deceased, and at the…
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