City of Birmingham v. Alabama Home Building & Loan Ass'n

BOULDIN, Justice.

Statutory bill to quiet title to real estate. The end in view was to test the validity of local assssments on abutting property for street improvements under proceedings by the city of Birmingham.

The cause was tried on an agreed statement of facts.

The controlling facts, briefly stated, are these:

On and prior to February 8, 1930, Maude H. Spangler was the owner and in possession (subject to mortgage hereafter mentioned) of a parcel of land known as the south half of block 34, Walker Land Company’s addition to Birmingham. This lot or parcel measured some 637 feet in length,…