Gore v. Dickinson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Calhoun Chancery Court. Heard before the Hon. S. K. McSpaddeN. This appeal is taken from demurrers sustained to complainant’s bill. The bill was filed by Mary L. Gore and a number of others, against E. B. Dickinson, J. A. Dickinson, Vm. M. Burris and W. ~W. Gore. Both the complainants and defendants are the heirs-at-law of John Dickinson.
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Appeal from Calhoun Chancery Court. Heard before the Hon. S. K. McSpaddeN. This appeal is taken from demurrers sustained to complainant’s bill. The bill was filed by Mary L. Gore and a number of others, against E. B. Dickinson, J. A. Dickinson, Vm. M. Burris and W. ~W. Gore. Both the complainants and defendants are the heirs-at-law of John Dickinson. The bill sought a partition of certain lands alleged to have been owned By said John Dickinson at his death, between the complainants and defendants as joint owners or co-tenants by descent. The bill further prayed the cancellation of certain…
1Opinion of the CourtThorington, J.
Appellants and appellees are the heirs at law of John Dickinson, deceased, and the bill is filed by the former against the latter for the purpose of obtaining partition of certain lands described in the bill, of which, it is alleged, their said ancestor died seized and possessed.
The essential facts according to the averments of the bill, are that the tract of land in question consisted, at the death of the common ancestor, of about eight hundred and forty acres, situated in Calhoun county, and in 1867 he and his wife executed a deed, embracing all the property, in favor of the appellees, J.…
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