Coffey v. Cross
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jackson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. H. Simpson. Bill by Charles Macklin Cross and others against I. L. Coffey and others. Prom a decree for complainants, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from Jackson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. H. Simpson. Bill by Charles Macklin Cross and others against I. L. Coffey and others. Prom a decree for complainants, defendants appeal. The suit was to enjoin said Coffey from assigning or otherwise disposing of a certain note, and that the deed made to complainant and John Benson Cross he canceled, and the note held by Coffey be surrendered and canceled, and that the bond and mortgage executed to one Washington be rescinded and canceled, and for general relief. If there was any error in the decree of divorce and alimony, it could only…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
On the 7th day of May, 1882, Mary J. Ball, of Bedford county, Tenn., was married to Clark Cross, of Jackson county, Ala. Clark Cross was a man of means, and for about a year after the marriage said parties lived together as husband and wife on a plantation of said Cross, in Jackson county. The marriage was an unhappy one, and about a year after it was contracted the wife left the home of said Cross, returned to her father in Tennessee, and on the 12th day of September, 1883, filed a bill of complaint against the said Clark Cross in the chancery court of Jackson county, Ala.,…
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