Legal Opinion
Rowell v. Gulf, M. O. R. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided December 12, 1946No. I Div. 267PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMPSON, Justice.
Decision rests on the construction to be accorded two certain land deeds of bargain and sale executed respectively by William H. Rowell and wife and Thomas B. Me-. Donald and wife, in 1899, to the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company.
The deeds were for irregular parcels of land and except for the differences in amounts of the cash consideration, the granting clauses of the two were identical and recited that the grantors “for the further consideration of the benefits to accrue to us from the construction of a railroad on the strip of land and on the station ground herein conveyed,…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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- East Alabama Railway Co. v. Doe Ex Dem. VisscherSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Stevens v. Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1919
- Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway Co. v. GeiselIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
- Jones v. Van BochoveMichigan Supreme Court · 1894
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3Cited by19 opinions
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- Moss v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 2001
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