Legal Opinion

Whitmire v. Spears

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided April 9, 1925No. 7 Div. 491PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.

Statutory bill to quiet title to certain lands situated in St. Clair county, filed by appellees against appellant. The bill was sufficient as against any demur; rer interposed thereto. In a bill of this character it is unnecessary to allege in terms that the complainant was the owner of the land at the time the bill was filed. Section 9905 et seq., Code 1923; Vaughan v. Palmore, 176 Ala. 72, 57 So. 488.

Complainants do not insist that they were in the actual possession of the land at the time the bill was,filed, but that they were in the peaceable, constructive, possession thereof, having…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. George E. Wood Lumber Co. v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1908
  2. Vaughan v. PalmoreSupreme Court of Alabama · 1912
  3. Bradford v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1907
  4. Perryman v. WrightSupreme Court of Alabama · 1914
  5. Chaplin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1912

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Buchmann Abstract & Investment Co. v. RobertsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1925
  2. Montgomery v. SpearsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1928
  3. McCaleb v. WorcesterSupreme Court of Alabama · 1932
  4. Watson v. TaylorSupreme Court of Alabama · 1974

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