Wall v. Foote

ERVIN, District Judge.

This is a statutory form of ejectment under the provisions of the Code of Alabama, seeking to recover lands described in the complaint. The government issued a patent in 1843 to one Lemuel Butler. The title of the plaintiffs began with a tax sale against Butler in 1866, and comes pn down through mesne conveyances to the plaintiffs, who on October 25, 1909, filed in, the chancery court of Clark county, Ala., a bill to quiet title under the provisions of chapter 127 in the Code of Alabama of 1907, which was a re-enactment-from the Code of 1896 of a codification of an act…