Evans, Fite, Porter & Co. v. Covington
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie Chancery Court of Blount. Heard before the Hon.. Thomas Cobbs. cited authorities collated in Brickell’s Digest, vol. 1, p. 349, § 9; lb. 72-3, §§ 51-•65; Sell v. Sell’s Adm’r, 36 Ala. 466; same case, 37 Ala. 536 ; Williams v. McmU, 20 Ala. 721; MeAnall/y v. O’Neal, 56 Ala. 300.
1Opinion of the CourtBdickell, C. J.
The appellants, judgment-creditors of Diehard Covington, having exhausted legal remedies, filed the •original bill, alleging that said Diehard, in the name of his wife, Mary S., purchased a tract of land from one Harper Morton for the sum of thirteen hundred dollars, "of which nine hundred and fifty dollars had been paid, the legal title remaining in said Morton, who had given bond for the making of the title to said Mary S., on the full payment of the purchase-money. So much of the purchase-money of said lands as had been paid was paid by said Diehard. The prayer of the bill is, that the…
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