Price v. Robinson

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

This is a statutory bill to quiet title. Section 9905 et seq., Code 1923; Title 7, Section 1109 et seq., Code 1940.

Under the foregoing statute this court has repeatedly held that in order to maintain the action the proof must show a peaceable possession in the complainant as contradistinguished from a contested, disputed or scrambling possession. Randle et al. v. Daughdrill et al., 142 Ala. 490, 39 So. 162; George E. Wood Lumber Co. v. Williams, 157 Ala. 73, 47 So. 202; Ladd et al. v. Powell et al., 144 Ala. 408, 39 So. 46; Central of Georgia Railroad Company v. Rouse, 176…