Legal Opinion

Sims v. Reinert

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 28, 1970No. 6 Div. 749PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MADDOX, Justice.

The appellant, as administrator of the estate of one Celia C. Morris, filed this action seeking to set aside a deed executed by Mrs. Morris and seeking to recover certain funds allegedly belonging to her estate.

The evidence, taken nearly all ore tenus, tended to show that Celia Morris was born December 30, 1880. In 1963, when she was 82 years old and having some medical problems, she became dependent upon her brother, William Sims, who lived in Bessemer, and her sister, Anne Reinert (late wife of the appellee George Reinert), who lived about a block and one-half away from her…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Putnam v. PutnamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1963
  2. Dockery v. HamnerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1967
  3. Cherpes v. CherpesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1966
  4. Vafes v. StritikusSupreme Court of Alabama · 1928

3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Smith v. CITICORP PERSON-TO-PERSON FINANCIAL CENTERSSupreme Court of Alabama · 1985
  2. Coupounas v. MoradSupreme Court of Alabama · 1980
  3. In Re Estate of MooreSupreme Court of Alabama · 1977
  4. Barrett v. Odom, May and DeBuysSupreme Court of Alabama · 1984
  5. Lenore Williamson Burgess, Individually and as Guardian of the Estate of Ethel Jackson Williamson, a Non Compos Mentis v. Warren Jackson WilliamsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975

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