Norton v. British American Mortgage Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Bill in Equity to Redeem,. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Blount. The bill in this case was filed on the 5th day of June, 1895, by George C. Norton, G. H. Mourning, Alvah L. Terry and Douglas Barclay, as surviving partners of the firm of J. M. Robinson & Co., and avers the following facts : On the 6th day of December, 1892, B. R. Williams, H. W. Williams and R. L. Williams, as partners, under the name of B. R. Williams & Sons, were indebted to said J. M. Robinson & Co.,…
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Bill in Equity to Redeem,. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Blount. The bill in this case was filed on the 5th day of June, 1895, by George C. Norton, G. H. Mourning, Alvah L. Terry and Douglas Barclay, as surviving partners of the firm of J. M. Robinson & Co., and avers the following facts : On the 6th day of December, 1892, B. R. Williams, H. W. Williams and R. L. Williams, as partners, under the name of B. R. Williams & Sons, were indebted to said J. M. Robinson & Co., which was composed of complainants and J. M. Robinson, deceased, in the sum of $1,138.80, for goods before that time sold…
1Opinion of the CourtBuickell, C. J.
The demurrers of the respondents, which were sustained by the chancellor, are not identi*116cal; and it it probable, were intended to present different questions and different lines of defense. Tire demurrers of the British American Mortgage Company seem to rest solely on the theory, that the rights the complainants are seeking to enforce, are. the rights conferred by the statute, (Code of 1886, §§ 1879-91), on a judgment creditor to redeem the lands of a judgment •debtor, which had been sold in execution of a power of sale contained in a mortage. While the de•murrers of the other respondents…
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