Mayor of Mobile v. Eslava
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to Mobile Circuit court. Trespass to try title — before Pickens, J. The plaintiffs in error brought an action of trespass, against the defendant, in the Circuit court of Mobile, to try the title to, and recover the possession of, a certain lot or tract of land, situate in the city of Mobile.
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Error to Mobile Circuit court. Trespass to try title — before Pickens, J. The plaintiffs in error brought an action of trespass, against the defendant, in the Circuit court of Mobile, to try the title to, and recover the possession of, a certain lot or tract of land, situate in the city of Mobile. On the trial, the presiding judge sealed and certified a bill of exceptions, from which, among other things, it appears that “by an act of Congress, passed in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen,” the President was authorised to. cause the ground whereon Fort Charlotte, in the town of Mobile, was…
1Opinion of the Court
COLLIER* C* J.
It will be premised, that the property In controversy, is situated directly east of the site on which Fort Charlotte stood, in the city of Mobile. The lots laid off on the area covered by the fort, at the time of their survey and sale, extended east, to the margin of the shore, and at some points, even included a part of the shore, while still farther east, and immediately adjoining, was laid down on the plat, “ water street,” then almost, if not entirely unreclaimed* East of Water street, and west of the channel of the river, is situated the premises, the title to which is now…
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