Snedecor v. Freeman
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Greene Circuit Court. Tried before lion. ¥m. S. Mudd. Tlie facts bearing upon the principal questions raised by the record, and decided by the court, are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from Greene Circuit Court. Tried before lion. ¥m. S. Mudd. Tlie facts bearing upon the principal questions raised by the record, and decided by the court, are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The appellant, the defendant in the lower court, claimed under a mortgage executed by the appellees and another to Asa Johnson, in January, 1873. As shown by secondary evidence, after the loss of the writing was proved, this mortgage was transferred in writing by Johnson to Joel W. Jones & Co.; but the evidence does not show that the debt se-sured by the mortgage was also transferred. The…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
In this case several ejectments, being for the recovery of undivided interests in the same lands, were by consent tried together. The two plaintiffs, Jack Freeman and Alfred Freeman, recovered in the court below, and rulings in their cases raise the questions which are presented for our decision. Each sued for one-eighth undivided interest in a tract of four hundred acres — equal to fifty acres each — and each recovered a one-eighth undivided interest in the whole tract, and one hundred dollars as rents or mesne profits. We are not informed what became of the other suits.
The testimony tends…
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