Legal Opinion
Doe Ex Dem. Windsor Realty Co. v. Finnegan
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided May 16, 1918No. 6 Div. 728PublishedCited by 3 opinions
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; C. B. 'Smith, Judge. Action by John Doe, on the demise of the Windsor Realty Company, against Mary E. Finnegan. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, C. J.
The defendant testified that at the date of the claimed execution of the deed to Smithson she was a married woman, -having married one Einnegan at Macon, Ga., in th'e latter part of 1886; that “he was a Catholic, and the Catholic priest married us in the Catholic Church.” She further said:
“X was not living at Macon at the tíme; I went th^re and stayed there a short time. I met Mr. Einnegan there at a hoarding house; he had a contract there, and couldn’t get away, and I went to him, and we got married by the priest. I had met him here; Birmingham was his home.”
The trial court charged the jury,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Griffith v. American Coal Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1915
- Brown v. BrownSupreme Court of Alabama · 1917
- Cox v. Mobile & Girard RailroadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1870
- Town of Suffield v. New Haven & Northampton Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1885
- Knowles v. NorthropSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1885
3Cited by3 opinions
- Doe Ex Dem. Windsor Realty Co. v. FinneganSupreme Court of Alabama · 1923
- Doe Ex Dem. Windsor Realty Co. v. FinneganSupreme Court of Alabama · 1927
- Doe Ex Dem. Windsor Realty Co. v. FinneganSupreme Court of Alabama · 1927