Connor v. Armstrong
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Pike. Heard before the Hon. John A. Foster. The bill in this case was filed on the 29th April, 1887, by Martin Connor, against Charles Armstrong, as the executor of the last will and testament of his deceased wife, Mrs. Olemmie Armstrong, and their children as devisees under her will.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Pike. Heard before the Hon. John A. Foster. The bill in this case was filed on the 29th April, 1887, by Martin Connor, against Charles Armstrong, as the executor of the last will and testament of his deceased wife, Mrs. Olemmie Armstrong, and their children as devisees under her will. The bill sought to enjoin an action of ejectment, or statutory action in the nature thereof, which Mrs. Armstrong had instituted on the 9th July, 1886, to recover a tract of land, of which the complainant was in possession, and which he claimed under a deed executed to him by…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
Two objections are here urged on the part of Connor to the decree in this cause. First, that it was. error to tax him with one half the costs ; and, second, that the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars belonging to the corpus of Mrs. Armstrong’s separate estate, and paid by her husband to Connor before the sale of the land, should have been applied to the first items of the latter’s account, and was in fact so applied at the time of the payment, and should not have been applied, as was done by the decree, to those items only for which Mrs. Armstrong’s separate estate was liable as.…
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