Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal, from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the I-Ion. John C. Carmichael. The hill in this ease was filed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama against the Sloss-S'hef-field Steed & Iron 'Company, under the 'statute (Code, 809-813) to compel the determination of the claim of said Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company to certain real estate which was described in the hill by the government 'survey.
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Appeal, from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the I-Ion. John C. Carmichael. The hill in this ease was filed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama against the Sloss-S'hef-field Steed & Iron 'Company, under the 'statute (Code, 809-813) to compel the determination of the claim of said Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company to certain real estate which was described in the hill by the government 'survey. This litigation arose out- of the attempted sale of 4,4=80 acres of the lands belonging to the University of Alabama. The bill charged that the sale was founded upon…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, C. J.
The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama is complainant in this bill exhibited against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. The bill contains every averment and the prayer necessary to present a case of equitable cognizance under the acr. of 1892 “to compel the determination of claims to real estate in certain cases, and to quiet title to the same,” now embodied in sections 809 to 813 of the Code. It also contains other averments which, taken with those just adverted to, make a case for the removal of a cloud from complainant’s title under general principles of equity jurisprudence,…
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