Salter v. Fox
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. B. Gwin. Ejectment by G. W. and Nancy Pox against J. M. Salter. Judgment for plaintiffs and defendant appeals. The first deed exhibited ivas that of William Vines and others to Nancy Fox, executed December 27, 1890, acknowledged and recorded, and filed for record.
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Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. B. Gwin. Ejectment by G. W. and Nancy Pox against J. M. Salter. Judgment for plaintiffs and defendant appeals. The first deed exhibited ivas that of William Vines and others to Nancy Fox, executed December 27, 1890, acknowledged and recorded, and filed for record. The second deed was that of Nancy Pox and G. W. Pox to Pulton Snow, to become his at the death of the grantee, Nancy Pox, executed December 9, 1905. The next deed was from Fulton Snow and wife to G. W. Pox, in warranty executed February 10, 1906. It appears from the record…
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, J.(1) Statutory ejectment,' by appellees against appellant. The deed from Nancy Fox and her husband, G. W. Fox, to Fulton Snow, of date December 9, 1904, effected to reserve in Nancy Fox the use and enjoyment, the possession, of the land during her life, thereby postponing the right to possession of the land until her death.—Abney v. Moore, 106 Ala. 131, 135, 18 South. 60. In consequence, the conveyance of Fulton Snow and wife to G. W. Fox, of date February 10, 1906, operated to vest the title in G. W. Fox, subject to the stated reservation of possession in Nancy Fox. In order for…
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