Strange & White v. King
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Tried before Hon. H. A. Sharpe. This was a statutory action of ejectment brought by appellee, King, against one Gentles, tenant 'of appellants, Strange and White, who were admitted to defend the action. The state of the record title to the property sued for appears in the opinion.
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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Tried before Hon. H. A. Sharpe. This was a statutory action of ejectment brought by appellee, King, against one Gentles, tenant 'of appellants, Strange and White, who were admitted to defend the action. The state of the record title to the property sued for appears in the opinion. There was evidence that at the time King erected the house on the land, he was notified of appellants’ claim thereto; that after the erection of the house, King placed a tenant therein who remained a few weeks; that thereafter without King’s knowledge or consent appellants took…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, 0. J.
This is a statutory real action, for the recovery of one acre of land in the south-west corner of the northeast fourth of the south-east fourth of section 29, township 17, range 2 west, in Jefferson county. Under a description, fatally imperfect, an acre of land, corresponding to this as to section, and somewhat as to its location in the section, was in 1873, conveyed by one Waits to Henderson and Marcus Hamilton; and there is some proof that they occupied it for a time. They then abandoned it, and went to parts unknown. Neither of the parties to this suit is shown to claim under…
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