Higdon v. Leggett

This bill was filed by Irene Leggett and others against Lula Mae Higdon and others, seeking the sale for division of some 20 acres of land near the town of Leighton, Ala. The relative rights and interests of the parties in the land depend upon the legal effect of the deed (of date February 20, 1872) set out in the report of the former appeal of Higdon v. Leggett, 205 Ala. 437, 88 South. 646. It was then decided, in adjudicated absence of ambiguity in the terms of the instrument, that the deed constituted grantees therein the children of Mrs. Jane M. Leggett born to her, after the death of…