Shorter v. Sheppard
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie- Chancery Court of Barbour. Heard before the Hon. Wade Keyes. The bill in ibis case was filed by John Gill Shorter, against Edmund Sheppard, in bis own right, and as administrator of George W. Lore, deceased, and the infant heirs-at-law of said Lore.
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Appeal from tlie- Chancery Court of Barbour. Heard before the Hon. Wade Keyes. The bill in ibis case was filed by John Gill Shorter, against Edmund Sheppard, in bis own right, and as administrator of George W. Lore, deceased, and the infant heirs-at-law of said Lore. Its object was to quiet the complainant’s title to a large tract of land lying in Barbour county, and several town-lots in Eufaula, which are particularly described in the hill; and to enjoin the defendant Sheppard from proceeding, under an order of the orphans’ court, to sell the interest therein which he claimed as belonging to…
1Opinion of the Court
R. W. WALKER, J.—
By the agreement of the counsel in this case, our investigation is confined to a single ■question—namely, whether there is legal proof sufficient to establish a re-conveyance of the land in controversy, by George W, Lore to Seth Lore, re-investing the latter with the title previously conveyed by him to the former.
Ordinarily, the mode of establishing such a re-conveyance would be the production of the deed, and proof of its execution. In this case, no deed was produced; and this devolved upon the complainant the necessity of proving the existence of such an instrument, of…
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