City of Montgomery v. Brown

LAWSON, Justice.

The subject matter of this litigation is a seventy-eight-acre tract of land to which one Sidney Hall had record title at the time of his death in September, 1911. In his will Hall devised the subject property to his sister, Olivia S. Ledyard.

On June 30, 1960, Celia Brown filed a bill in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, in Equity, against the City of Montgomery.

The pertinent provisions of the stating part of the bill read:

“(3) For a period of time prior to the death of said Sidney Hall, complainant was in open, hostile, notorious, and adverse possession of the aforesaid…