Dickinson v. Harris
Supreme Court of Alabama
Bill to Quiet Title. Appeal from Marion Chancery Conrt. Heard before Hon. W. H. Simpson. Bill by Lindon J. Dickinson against George S. Harris to quiet title. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. The bill contains the usual statutory averments.
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Bill to Quiet Title. Appeal from Marion Chancery Conrt. Heard before Hon. W. H. Simpson. Bill by Lindon J. Dickinson against George S. Harris to quiet title. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. The bill contains the usual statutory averments. By the answer it is set up that on the 25th day .of October, 1891, N. A. Musgrove and others, named therein, being sole owners of said lot and in possession thereof, sold and conveyed the same by proper deed to respond George S. Harris, N. O. Bowling, J. C. Roberts, W. A. Roberts, J. C. Aiken, and R. Perry, for the sum of |250, and…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
Formal bill to quiet title under the statutes. It must be concluded, from the testimony noted, that the Winfield Fanners’ Alliance, a corporation, took the legal title to the lots in question under a conveyance, executed August 23, 1890, to it from Mus-grove and others, and went into possession of them; that the alleged conveyance, of date August 16, 1.892, to William Perry, was ineffectual to vest the corporation’s legal title in him, because, as appears from this record, of the entire want of authority from the corporation to convey these lots, and hence, so far as muniments of title are…
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