Hughes v. Rose
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Butler Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. Richardson. Ejectment by Ella Hughes against T. L. Rose. Judgment for -defendant, and plaintiff appeals. The plaintiff was a daughter of Netta Mims, whose husband, George Mims, owned the land at the time of his death; but Ella Hughes was not George Mims’ daughter. T. L. Rose claimed under a deed from Mary J. Anderson, and it was shown that Mary J. Anderson was the child of George Mims, deceased.
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Appeal from Butler Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. Richardson. Ejectment by Ella Hughes against T. L. Rose. Judgment for -defendant, and plaintiff appeals. The plaintiff was a daughter of Netta Mims, whose husband, George Mims, owned the land at the time of his death; but Ella Hughes was not George Mims’ daughter. T. L. Rose claimed under a deed from Mary J. Anderson, and it was shown that Mary J. Anderson was the child of George Mims, deceased. The deed recites that “I, Mary J. Anderson, whose husband is a nonresident of the state of Alabama, and has abandoned her, do hereby grant,…
1Opinion of the Court
■SIMPSON, J.
This is a statutory action of ejectment, by the appellant against the appellee, in which the court gave the general affirmative charge in favor of the defendant.
The first assignment of error insisted on is to the action of the court in overruling the objections of the plaintiff to the introduction of the deed executed by Mary J. Anderson to T. L. Rose, the defendant. The first objection offered to the admission of said deed was that “said deed shows that the said Mary Anderson was a married woman.” It will be noticed that it is not asserted that she was a married woman, thus…
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