Wilson's Adm'r v. Holt
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Montgomery. Heard before the lion. John A. Foster. The original bill in this case was filed on the 29th January, 1883, by Waldo P. Wilson, only surviving child and heir at law of Dr. Robert S. Wilson, deceased, against James S. Holt and others ; and sought, princijmlly, to establish and enforce-the complainant’s right and title to an undivided half interest in a large tract of land near the city of Montgomery, which he claimed under the…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Montgomery. Heard before the lion. John A. Foster. The original bill in this case was filed on the 29th January, 1883, by Waldo P. Wilson, only surviving child and heir at law of Dr. Robert S. Wilson, deceased, against James S. Holt and others ; and sought, princijmlly, to establish and enforce-the complainant’s right and title to an undivided half interest in a large tract of land near the city of Montgomery, which he claimed under the provisions of an alleged ante-nuptial contract between his father and Mrs. Emmeline S. Chambliss,, then the widow of David…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
Reference is had to .the reports of this case as heretofore presented and decided in this court, for a fuller understanding of the matters involved in the present ajipeal.—Holt v. Wilson, 75 Ala. 58; Wilson v. Holt, 83 Ala. 528; Wilson v. Holt, 85 Ala. 595.
When the case was first here, it was ruled, (1) that by the ante-nuptial contract between Wilson and Mrs. Chambliss, an express trust was, in effect, declared on the part of the latter, to stand seized of the legal title to the use of her intended *208husband, which trust was to become operative on the death of her daughter, Sallie D.…
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