Bledsoe v. Price & Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Marengo. Heard before the Hon. Thos. H. Smith. The bill in this case was filed by the partnership of 11. W. Brice & Co. against Thos. H. Bledsoe, Sarah A. Bledsoe and Henry T. Bledsoe.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Marengo. Heard before the Hon. Thos. H. Smith. The bill in this case was filed by the partnership of 11. W. Brice & Co. against Thos. H. Bledsoe, Sarah A. Bledsoe and Henry T. Bledsoe. It was averred in the bill that in December, 1884, one 1Í. P. Bledsoe, Sarah A. Bledsoe and J. M. Wright, were tenants in common of certain lands specifically described in the complaint; R. P. Bledsoe owning an undivided two-thirds interest in said lands and Sarah A. Bledsoe and J. M. Wright jointly owning the remaining one-third interest; that on December 30, 1884, R. P.…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
—Confessedly the averments of the bill, in stating how, in what way and from what source the complainants became the owners of the land, and in describing the claim of the; respondent, go beyond the requirements of a bill framed under sections 809 et seq. of the Code.—Inter-State B. & L. Asso. v. Stocks, 124 Ala,. 109. The fact that it contains these things, in connection with the averment that complainants are in peaceable possession of the land, does not impair its efficiency as a bill under the statute. Nor does the fact that in the prayer the cancellation of the muniment of title under…
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