Bettis v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit court of Mobile. Trial of the right of property, before :Pickens, J. On the twenty-sixth day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the clerk of the Circuit court of Monroe, issued a pluries writ of fieri facias, directed to the sheriff of Mobile county, requiring him to make of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of William H. Howell, an amount in damages and costs, said to have been adjudged to the defendant in error by the Circuit…
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Error to the Circuit court of Mobile. Trial of the right of property, before :Pickens, J. On the twenty-sixth day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the clerk of the Circuit court of Monroe, issued a pluries writ of fieri facias, directed to the sheriff of Mobile county, requiring him to make of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of William H. Howell, an amount in damages and costs, said to have been adjudged to the defendant in error by the Circuit court of Monroe, which fieri facias was levied on the twenty-fifth of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, on certain…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
— The assignment of errors lead us to consider—
First — The regularity, in point of law, of the verdict and judgment against William J. Bettis, as rendered upon the trial of the right of property. -: -
Second — Whethér William J. Bettis, was legally a party to the proceeding in the Circuit court.
Third — The correctness of the several decisions of the judge of the Circuit court, pending the trial before the jury. . . '
First — The plaintiff, in the first place, objects to the judgment of the Circuit court, because the jury find ten per cent damages on the amount of the execution,- in favor of the…
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