Griswold v. Thornton
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Bullock. Heard before the Hon. Jere N. Williams. The appellee, W. M. Thornton, filed a bill in the chan-eery court of Bull-ock county against H. H. Griswold and others, in which lie prayed to have an action of ejectment enjoined and errors in the description of certain lands contained in a. deed to the complainants corrected, and that all interest in said lands be divested out of the defendants and invested in the complainant.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Bullock. Heard before the Hon. Jere N. Williams. The appellee, W. M. Thornton, filed a bill in the chan-eery court of Bull-ock county against H. H. Griswold and others, in which lie prayed to have an action of ejectment enjoined and errors in the description of certain lands contained in a. deed to the complainants corrected, and that all interest in said lands be divested out of the defendants and invested in the complainant. Among the parties respondent to the bill there were two minors who were represented by Ernest L. Blue as guardian ad litem. On the…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
The appeal in this case was sued out in the name of all the respondents in the court below. The motion to dismiss the appeal is based upon two grounds, the first 'being that after the rendition of the final decree, appealed from and before the appeal was sued out, Emma Williams, one of the respondents in whose name the appeal was taken, had died. Sufficient to say that this ground of the motion had been met and obviated by a counter motion to amend the appeal so as to show that the same was taken in the name of all the respondents except the said Emma Williams.
'The second ground of the motion…
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