Coltart v. Moore
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before the lion. Henry O. Speaice. This action was brought by Edward IT.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before the lion. Henry O. Speaice. This action was brought by Edward IT. Moore and others, against Charles Beagan,to recover certain premises, particularly described in the complaint; and was commenced on the 5th”April, 1876. Mrs. Harriet E. Coltart intervened as owner of the premises, and was admitted to defend ; and she thereupon pleaded not guilty7, and entered a suggestion of adverse possession for three years and the erection of valuable improvements. Issue was joined on his plea and suggestion, and a trial had at the December term, 1878,…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
The appellees, Moore and others, brought a statutory real action for the recovery of a lot of land in the city of Huntsville, described in the complaint by metes and bounds. The action was commenced in 1876, against Reagan, and Mrs. Ooltart was, at her instance, made defendant as the asserted owner of the lot. .She pleaded “ not guilty,” and suggested upon the record that “ she, and those whose possession she has, for three years next before the commencement of this suit, have had adverse possession of the property sued for, and during said adverse possession she and those whose possession…
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