Robinson v. Allison
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Tried before I-Ion. H. C. Speake. This was a statutory real action for the recovery of possession of a house and lot situated in the city of Huntsville, in which the appellant was plaintiff and the appellees were defendants.
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Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Tried before I-Ion. H. C. Speake. This was a statutory real action for the recovery of possession of a house and lot situated in the city of Huntsville, in which the appellant was plaintiff and the appellees were defendants. The material facts are, that Samuel H. Allison, the ancestor of the appellees, was seized in fee of the premises, for many years prior to and in 1867, residing thereon as his home, with his wife who survived him, and their children, the appellees. In 1867, in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama,…
1Opinion of the CourtSharpe, J.
— The governing principles and'the main facts involved in this cayise are stated in the report of *328the same cause upon a former appeal and need not he here restated. See Robinson v. Allison, 97 Ala. 596. Upon a second appeal the question as to the sufficiency of the deed from the United States Marshal to James Robinson was considered with reference to its description of the lot sued for and particularly in respect of a defective statement of the boundary line and it was held that whatever ambiguity existed in the description was, eliminated by the uncontradicted parol proof. — Robinson v.…
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