Jones v. Gilmer

FOSTER, Justice.

The appeal in this case is limited to one question, and that is one of fact, and concerns the title and right among tenants in common of a tract of valuable property in the city of Montgomery, and some not so valuable in Blount County.

The land was owned by Mrs. Sallie T. Harris at the time of her death on December 23, 1935, while she was insane and an inmate of the hospital at Tuscaloosa, where she had been since 1898. Her heirs at law consisted of seven sisters and brothers or their descendants. One of them, Miss Rebecca Gilmer, -had been guardian of the estate of the insane…