McGrantt v. Baggett
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tire Chancery Court of Conecuh. Heard before the Hon. William L. Parks. Appellant, Lucy McGrantt, exhibited her bill of complaint in the chancery -court -of Conecuh county against the appellee, J. G. Baggett, seeking to'obtain the cancellation, as a cloud upon her alleged title, of a certain deed, purporting to have been made by her to appellee, dated January 24, 1890, conveying to appellee certain ten acres of land, together with the timber on certain other…
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Appeal from tire Chancery Court of Conecuh. Heard before the Hon. William L. Parks. Appellant, Lucy McGrantt, exhibited her bill of complaint in the chancery -court -of Conecuh county against the appellee, J. G. Baggett, seeking to'obtain the cancellation, as a cloud upon her alleged title, of a certain deed, purporting to have been made by her to appellee, dated January 24, 1890, conveying to appellee certain ten acres of land, together with the timber on certain other lands therein described, upon the ground that the said deed was never executed by appellant or any one by her authority. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSharpe, J.
To remove an alleged cloud from her title to the timber interest in seventy acres of land, complainant seeks to have cancelled a writing which purports to be a deed from her to defendant conveying the timber interest in question together with the fee sample interest in an adjoining ten acres. The alleged ground for relief is that complainant never executed such a deed. It is proven that complainant has twice sued the defendant in ejectment for the ten acres of land, and that in both suits the execution of this deed was the main question at issue, and further that in both suits judgment was…
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