Webb v. Robbins
Supreme Court of Alabama
Bill in Equity to enforce Covenant manning with Land. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Wilcox. Heard before the Hon. N. S. Graham.
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Bill in Equity to enforce Covenant manning with Land. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Wilcox. Heard before the Hon. N. S. Graham. The original bill in this case was filed on the 30th October, 1879, by Mrs. Sarah S. Bobbins, Mrs. Viola S. Curtis, and Mrs. Alice G. Mayer, married women, who sued as the heirs at law of their deceased father, Bobert H. Gregg, against William H. Webb; and sought to enjoin and restrain the defendant from the further use of a public warehouse and landing on the river, just below another warehouse and landing known as “Lower Peach Tree Landing,” which belonged to,…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, O. J. —
The motion to dismiss the appeal in this case is based on a misapprehension of the effect of the act approved March 6, 1875. — Code of 1876, § 3925. The terms of that statute do not make it compulsory that appeals, taken during the session of this court, shall be made returnable to the first Tuesday in some month of the term, during which the ap*181peál is taken. It only provides that they may be so taken. This statute provides only a cumulative remedy, and does not repeal section 3916 of the Code. "We have several times held, that when an appeal is taken to this court, which is…
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