Daily's Adm'r v. Reid
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery .Court of Blount. Heard before the Hon. H. C. Spbake. The bill in this case was filed on the 1st December, 1871, on the equity side of the Circuit Court of Blount county (under the provisions of the constitution of 1868), by George Daily, against the administrator of the insolvent estate of James Reid, deceased, together with the surviving widow of said decedent, and his infant daughter, James Eliza P. Reid.
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Appeal from the Chancery .Court of Blount. Heard before the Hon. H. C. Spbake. The bill in this case was filed on the 1st December, 1871, on the equity side of the Circuit Court of Blount county (under the provisions of the constitution of 1868), by George Daily, against the administrator of the insolvent estate of James Reid, deceased, together with the surviving widow of said decedent, and his infant daughter, James Eliza P. Reid. Its object was to enforce an alleged vendor’s lien on a tract of land, which the complainant had sold and conveyed to one Matthew Nelson, and which Nelson…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
— The bill in this case was filed to enforce an alleged vendor’s lien. The bill was filed in 1871, by George Daily, the vendor, who was then in life. Pending the suit, George Daily died, and there was a revivor in the name of George J. Daily, his administrator. The bill avers that, in 1856, Daily sold the lands sought to be condemned, to Nelson, at the price of one thousand dollars, to be paid, and made him a deed, conveying title to him. The bill then avers that Nelson, on the 13th February, 1860, having paid nothing for said land, sold and conveyed the same to James Reid, at the agreed…
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