Slayton v. Blount
Supreme Court of Alabama
Statutory Action in nature of Ejectment. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa. Tried before the Hon. S. H. Sprott.
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Statutory Action in nature of Ejectment. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa. Tried before the Hon. S. H. Sprott. This was a statutory action in the nature of ejectment, brought by M. P. Blount against Luther Slayton, to recover an undivided interest in a certain tract of land, which the plaintiff claimed under a conveyance from one J. P. Thompson to Mrs. Mary Francis Blount, who was plaintiff’s mother, and which the defendant claimed as a purchaser from'one Sumner, who held under a deed subsequently excuted to him by said Thompson and wife and Mrs. Mary F. Blount and her husband. The…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
— -A printed blank form was used in the execution of the deed upon the construction of which depends appellee’s right of recovery. In copying the parts of the instrument which have a bearing upon the question of construction, the written words are italicized, so as to distinguish them from the printed matter. The deed commences and proceeds as follows : “This indenture, made the 26 day February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, between J. P. Thompson of the first part, and Mary *576Francis Blount and the heir,s of her body of the second part} witnesseth: That…
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