Huey v. Brock
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Hugh A. Locke, Judge. Bill to quiet title to certain lands by D. A. Brock and others against Virginia Huey and others. Decree for complainants, and defendants appeal.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Hugh A. Locke, Judge. Bill to quiet title to certain lands by D. A. Brock and others against Virginia Huey and others. Decree for complainants, and defendants appeal. The bill was filed under the statute, and the respondents answered that they claimed a reversionary interest in some of the lands, that they claimed no possessory interest, and that their title was conditioned upon the falling in of the title of one Rebecca J. Tully, who was the mother or grandmother or ancestor of most of the respondents, and that she was still living, and that she…
1Opinion of the Court
■SAYRE, J.
A. H. Laird died in 1876, seis-ed and possessed oí the land here in controversy. His widow remained on this land after his death, and shortly thereafter dower in it was assigned to her. Then she intermarried with one Tully, and is still living. Defendants are lineal descendants of Laird and his heirs at law. Laird had purchased the land from one May, and at the time of his death May held a vendor’s lien as security for the purchase price. The record of a decree in chancery in a cause entitled “M. A. May v. M. M. Guin et al.,” dated November 12, 1879, and purporting to declare a…
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