Sims v. Mobile, J. & K. C. R. R.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ejectment. Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Samuel B. Browne. Ejectment by T. W. Sims and others against the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal.
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Ejectment. Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Samuel B. Browne. Ejectment by T. W. Sims and others against the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal. The description of the land as shown by the complaint is as follows: “Beginning at a point at the intersection of the eastern line of Conception street and the northern line of the levee, as shown by the map of James Dowell, recorded in Deed Book 40 S, p. 374, of the records of Mobile connty, and running thence southwardly along said eastern line of Conception street…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
This was a statutory action of ejectment, by the appellants against the appellee, to recover *236the laud described in the complaint, which will be sqt out in the statement of this case by the reporter.
The plaintiffs offered in evidence a copy, from the “American State Papers,” of the report of the land commissioners, “founded on grants from the French, British, or Spanish governments,” which merely showed Forbes & Co. to be the original claimants of “600 arpens” from the Spanish government; “date of claim, 17th April, 1807;” “where sustained, Choctaw Point;” “surveyed April 14, 1807,” etc.…
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