Pope v. Harkins
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Chancery Court of Lauderdale. Before the Hpn. David G. Ligón, Chancellor. The bill in this case was filed by the defendants against the plaintiffs in error. The facts are fully set out in the opinion of the court. The chancellor decreed in favor of the complainants and his decree is now assigned as error. 1. Pope has the right to dispute the complainants title, having been induced to recognise it by the representations of the complainants. Law Lib.
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Error to the Chancery Court of Lauderdale. Before the Hpn. David G. Ligón, Chancellor. The bill in this case was filed by the defendants against the plaintiffs in error. The facts are fully set out in the opinion of the court. The chancellor decreed in favor of the complainants and his decree is now assigned as error. 1. Pope has the right to dispute the complainants title, having been induced to recognise it by the representations of the complainants. Law Lib. Oct. 1846,150; 2d U. S. Dig. 740, § 144; 2d Phil. Ev. C. & H. 202; Jackson, ex dem. v. Spear, 7 Wend. 401-304; 22 Wend. 121; 13…
1Opinion of the CourtDargan, J.
The complainants allege that they are owners of an undivided third interest in a lot of land in the town of Florence, on which was situated a hotel, and that Willis Pope was the owner of the other two-thirds; one third in his own right, and the other in trust for the children of his wife. In the year 1840, complainants leased their third interest to Pope, for the sum of $333 33, at the expiration of which lease Pope leased the hotel, with another lot which he owned in fee, to one Pearsall for a term of years, for the sum of forty-five hundred dollars, which was paid by a conveyance of real…
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