Hollis v. Watkins
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Lamar Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. H. Simpson. Partition by Della Watkins against J. L. Hollis and others. From the relief granted respondents appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
J. K. P. Hollis and T. C. Hollis were tenants of a tract of land containing something less than 1,000 acres. They were brothers, and each was married. J. K. P. Hollis was without children, but T. C. Hollis was the father of seven. The relations between the families were evidently pleasant, because, for a long period of years, the two families lived in harmony upon the said property. In fact, all of the children of T. C. Hollis appear to have been born on this land, and some of them were of lawful age when T. C. Hollis died.
There were two residences and separate settlements…
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