Dudley v. Witter
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from. Chancery Court of Lowndes. Heard before Hon. A. C. Feldeb. Some few years prior to 1841, Francis Lewis died intestate in Lowndes county, leaving a widow and seven children, his only heirs-at-law, and a large estate, real and personal.
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Appeal from. Chancery Court of Lowndes. Heard before Hon. A. C. Feldeb. Some few years prior to 1841, Francis Lewis died intestate in Lowndes county, leaving a widow and seven children, his only heirs-at-law, and a large estate, real and personal. Complainant was the youngest child, and after her father’s death, and in the year 1839, she, being then a minor, married one Lampkin, who died in 1856. In 1842, complainant filed in the chancery court of Lowndes, her bill to enforce her equity to a settlement out of her portion of her father’s estate. Her husband, and the widow and all the other…
1Opinion of the CourtB. F. Saffold, J.
In this case the appellee sought to require the appellant, Dudley, to surrender to her a certain tract of land in Lowndes county, and to account for the rents and profits thereof, from the time he received possession. Dudley obtained possession of the land in 1851, under a deed from Hamlin F. Lewis and wife and Robert Scott and wife, conveying it-as their own property to him in fee simple, and warranting the title, for valuable consideration. The appellee claims that this land was a part of the estate of her father, Francis Lewis, and was set apart to her under a partition of her father’s…
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