Shropshire v. State ex rel. Williams

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

The State of Alabama, by R. Clarence Williams, Deputy Solicitor of Calhoun County, Alabama, filed a bill of complaint in the Circuit Court, in Equity, of Calhoun County to condemn one 1940 Chevrolet automobile for illegally transporting prohibited liquor in said county. The bill made Fred Roy Taylor and one 1940 Chevrolet automobile, motor No. 3236734 respondents.

Willis Shropshire and the Cherokee County Bank, at Centre, Alabama, intervened by petition and claimed the automobile. Shropshire claimed as owner and the bank as mortgagee. Taylor failed to answer the-*471■bill and a…