Thompson v. Hudgins
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham, in Equity. Heard before the Hon. H. A. Sharps. These two cases are identical in all of their features, except as to the names of the complainants; Thomas C. Thompson and Julia N. Thompson being the. complainants in one bill, and Adam O. Riser and his wife, Eula Riser, being the complainants in the other bill. The transactions in each were identical; and the facts of the two cases are set forth at length in the opinion.
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Appeal from the City Court of Birmingham, in Equity. Heard before the Hon. H. A. Sharps. These two cases are identical in all of their features, except as to the names of the complainants; Thomas C. Thompson and Julia N. Thompson being the. complainants in one bill, and Adam O. Riser and his wife, Eula Riser, being the complainants in the other bill. The transactions in each were identical; and the facts of the two cases are set forth at length in the opinion. The appeal in the case of Thompson v. Hudgins is from a decree sustaining the joint demurrers of the defendants to the complainants’…
1Opinion of the CourtHead, J.
This is a bill by the appellants for the cancellation and surrender of three promissory notes and a mortgage given to secure the same, executed by them to appellee, Lucy P. Hudgins, executrix of T. L. Hudgins, deceased. The facts are that on the 26th day of August, 1884, the grandfather of the complainant, Julia N. Thompson, executed and delivered to the latter his deed, under seal, duly witnessed and acknowledged, by which in consideration of love and affection, he “gave, granted, bargained, sold and conveyed” to her two hundred shares of the capital stock of the First National Bank of…
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