Robison v. Robison
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Chancery Court of Butler. Heard before Hon. Adam C. Eelder. The main facts of this cause are as follows : In the year 1860, L. H. Robison, the husband of complainant, at the request of his mother-in-law, who was the executrix of the estate of complainant’s father, bid off, at a sale made by the administrator of one Hawkins, deceased, the lands described in the bill, and executed his promissory note therefor, payable 12 months after date.
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Appeal from Chancery Court of Butler. Heard before Hon. Adam C. Eelder. The main facts of this cause are as follows : In the year 1860, L. H. Robison, the husband of complainant, at the request of his mother-in-law, who was the executrix of the estate of complainant’s father, bid off, at a sale made by the administrator of one Hawkins, deceased, the lands described in the bill, and executed his promissory note therefor, payable 12 months after date. No money was paid for the land until 1863, when the executrix of his wife’s father, as a part of his wife’s distributive share of said estate,…
1Opinion of the CourtB. F. Saffold, J.
The bill was filed by Frances W. Robison against her husband, Lodowick Robison, and Boyles & Milner, his judgment creditors, to establish a resulting trust in her favor of a certain tract of land. She charged that the land was sold on the 3d of December, 1860, by Allen Hawkins, as administrator of Wiley Hawkins, deceased, and bid off by her husband, who gave his *233own notes, due twelve months after date, for the purchase-money. These notes were paid with money of her separate estate derived from her father. Her mother, as executrix of his estate, advanced the money to her husband, Lodowick, who…
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