Tharp v. Johnson

The bill in equity, by appellants, sought sale of lands for division among-joint owners.

The answer of respondents denied that complainants had any interest in the lands; that the same were duly claimed and set apart to them as exempt property from the insolvent estate of Allen Thompson, who died November 10, 1887, and that the title vested absolutely in the widow and minor children. And other matters of equitable cognosce are set up by the answer. Evans v. Evans, 213 Ala. 265, 104 So. 515; First National Bank of Tuscaloosa v. Kennedy, 113 Ala. 279, 21 So. 387, 36 L. R. A. 308; Kilgore v.…