Combs v. Greene
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Lee Law and equity Court. Heard before Hon. Lum Duke. Rill by Vincly Greene and others against Henry Combs for partition of land. Prom a decree granting-complainants relief respondent appeals. The bill allleges that the complainants and respondents John Whitton, Sidney Greene, and Willie Greene are tenants in common of certain lands, setting out the facts as they appear in the opinion.
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Appeal from Lee Law and equity Court. Heard before Hon. Lum Duke. Rill by Vincly Greene and others against Henry Combs for partition of land. Prom a decree granting-complainants relief respondent appeals. The bill allleges that the complainants and respondents John Whitton, Sidney Greene, and Willie Greene are tenants in common of certain lands, setting out the facts as they appear in the opinion. Henry Combs denied the joint tenancy, setting up that he was the sole owner of said property, and in the possession thereof, claiming it as his own, against all persons whatsoever. Liza Combs had no…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
Bill Combs died during the year 1906, intestate and owning the fee in, and then residing upon, the 100 acres of land described in the bill. These lands were of a value less than $2,000, and constituted all the lands owned by Bill Combs at the time of his death. Subsequently, in the year 1906, Liza Combs, his widow, died. No minor children, of his union with Liza, survived him. She left six heirs at law, and two of these exhibit this bill against the other four, to effect a sale of the land for division among them under the statutes to that end (Code, § 4231).
The court possessed jurisdiction…
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- Dickinson v. ChampionSupreme Court of Alabama · 1910
- Hall v. HallSupreme Court of Alabama · 1911
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