Legal Opinion

Walker v. Hallett

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 15, 1840PublishedCited by 36 opinions

Error to the Chancery Court sitting at Mobile. BILL.to foreclose a mortgage, filed by the defendant in error, against Geo. J. S. Walker, Frederick Blount, and Thomas Keenan, executors, and Eliza Keenan, executrix of M. J. Keenan, dec’d., and also against Eliza Ann Keenan, Michael Keenan, and Uriah Keenan, children and heirs of M. J. Keenan, tlec7d.

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Error to the Chancery Court sitting at Mobile. BILL.to foreclose a mortgage, filed by the defendant in error, against Geo. J. S. Walker, Frederick Blount, and Thomas Keenan, executors, and Eliza Keenan, executrix of M. J. Keenan, dec’d., and also against Eliza Ann Keenan, Michael Keenan, and Uriah Keenan, children and heirs of M. J. Keenan, tlec7d. The bill charges, that Walker being indebted to the complainant in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to secure the payment thereof, executed a mortgage on certain property in the city of Mobile. The debt was secured by ten promissory notes, for…

1Opinion of the CourtOrmond, J.

— The three first assignments of error, are well taken, as determined in the case of Cullum v. Casey & Co. at the present term; and for that cause, the decree must be reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings; and for the future government of the court, we think it proper to express an opinion on all the points presented by the assignments of error.

The fourth, fifth and tenth assignments of error, which question the regularity of the supplemental bill filed in the cause, will be considered together, A supplemental bill, properly so called, is a bilí brought for any new matter…

2Cited by36 opinions

  1. G., H. & S. A. R'y Co. v. GageTexas Supreme Court · 1884
  2. Frame v. PlumbWisconsin Supreme Court · 1909
  3. Patton v. DixonTennessee Supreme Court · 1900
  4. Bell v. BellArizona Supreme Court · 1934
  5. Hunt's Heirs v. Ellison's HeirsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1858

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