Boylston v. Rankin & Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Colbert. Tried before the Hon. Thos. R. Roulhac. Rankin & Co., the appellees, recovered a judgment in the circuit court of Barbour county on the 23d of November, 1886, against the appellant, J. C. Boylston, and an execution on the judgment was levied by the sheriff of Colbert county on the 30th day of July, 1887, on ten shares of stoclc in the Sheffield & Tuscumbia Street Railway Co., of the face value of $50 per share, which were on the…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Colbert. Tried before the Hon. Thos. R. Roulhac. Rankin & Co., the appellees, recovered a judgment in the circuit court of Barbour county on the 23d of November, 1886, against the appellant, J. C. Boylston, and an execution on the judgment was levied by the sheriff of Colbert county on the 30th day of July, 1887, on ten shares of stoclc in the Sheffield & Tuscumbia Street Railway Co., of the face value of $50 per share, which were on the books of the Sheffield & Tuscumbia Street Railway Co. in the name of J. C. Boylston, and on which 35 per cent! of the face…
1Opinion of the Court
BRICKELL, C. J. —
This was a claim of exemption from liability to sale under execution of ten shares of the capital stock of the Sheffield & Tuscumbia Railway Company, in which the appellant was the claimant, and the appellees were the contestants. The trial was had in the court below, by consent of the parties, without the intervention of a jury.
The causes of contest assigned by the appellees, are drawn to an unusual, if not unnecessary length, but when analyzed, and read in connection with the argument of counsel in support of them, they are readily resolvable into three separate,…
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