Mewburn's Heirs v. Bass
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The original bill in this case was filed on the 16th July, 1883, by Ella Mewburn and others, children and heirs at law of James E. Mewburn, deceased, against W. J. Bass as the administrator of the estate of Bichard Hudson, deceased, John A. McIntosh, and several other persons ; and sought an account and redemption under a mortgage of a tract of land, which said James E. Mewburn in his life-time…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The original bill in this case was filed on the 16th July, 1883, by Ella Mewburn and others, children and heirs at law of James E. Mewburn, deceased, against W. J. Bass as the administrator of the estate of Bichard Hudson, deceased, John A. McIntosh, and several other persons ; and sought an account and redemption under a mortgage of a tract of land, which said James E. Mewburn in his life-time had executed to said Hudson. The mortgage was dated the 8th September, 1866, was signed by said Mewburn and wife, and…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, O. J.
The appellants, who are complainants in this cause, are the youngest two of five children, left surviving him by James B. Mewburn, who died intestate, December 30, 1867. When this bill was filed, July 16,1883, Mrs. Hardman, the elder of the two compainants, had just passed her twenty-first year. Ella Mewburn ■ was then a minor. The older three children were each more than twenty-four years old ; that is, each had passed his and her twenty-first year by more than three years. William Mew-' *624burn, the oldest of the five children, had died in 1879, being than more than twenty-four…
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