Case law

Cobb v. Brown

361 So. 2d 1069 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Sep 1, 1978

Brown, are the record owners and assessed the land for taxes in 1963. Taxes for the year 1963 fell delinquent, and the land was sold at public auction and bid in for the State in 1964. … Dennison v. Claiborne , 289 Ala. 69 , 265 So.2d 853 (1972); Fitts v. Alexander , 277 Ala. 372 , 170 So.2d 808 (1965). Neither situation exists here.

Davis v. Brown

212 Ala. 604 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jan 22, 1925

Walker v. Judge, etc., 15 Ala. 740 ; Cook v. Candee, 52 Ala. 109 ; Ex parte Harris, 52 Ala. 89 , 23 Am. … The case of Turner ex rel. v.

McLeod v. Brown

210 Ala. 491 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 20, 1923

The following Alabama and many other authorities are cited to sustain it: Arrington v. Arrington, 122 Ala. 510 , 26 South. 152 ; Easly v. Dye, 14 Ala. 158 ; Pope v. Randolph, 13 Ala. 214 ; Smith v. … See, also, Stanfill v. Johnson, 150 Ala. 546 , 40 South. 223 ; Sanders v. Gurley, 153 Ala. 459 , 44 South. 1022 . Mrs. Brown, one of the donees, was not in fact a child of the donor, but she was treated as such by bim.

Brown v. Spencer

292 Ala. 66 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jan 24, 1974

Respondents Robert Brown, Superintendent of Education of Greene County, and the Board of Education of Greene County appeal from a “Writ of Mandamus” issued by the late Hon. E. F. Hildreth, Circuit Judge. … Finley v.

Hammett v. Brown

60 Ala. 498 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 15, 1877

—Stewart v. Frazier, 5 Ala. 114 . The charge requested by the defendant excluded from the consideration of the jury all the circumstantial evidence, which tended to show that he had collected the money.

Brown v. Pipes

366 So. 2d 261 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Dec 22, 1978

Scott v. Hardyman, 218 Ala. 515 , 119 So. 224 (1928); Kidd v. Williams, 132 Ala. 140 , 31 So. 458 (1901). … Kidd v. Williams, supra; Lecatt v. Sallee, 3 Port. 115 (Ala.1836).

Martin v. Brown

199 Ala. 134 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Feb 8, 1917

Hansell, 66 Ala. 151 ; Taylor v. Newton, 152 Ala. 459 , 44 South. 583 . While the contract entered into between J. N. Martin and J. D. … referred to in these instructions was not available to prevent the plaintiff from asserting his ownership in the automobile. — Brooks v.

Brown v. Huckabaa

264 Ala. 660 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Aug 2, 1956

Williams v. Johns-Carroll Lumber Co., supra. … Roanoke-Goodwater Pine Co. v. Cosby, 255 Ala. 435 , 51 So.2d 885 ; W. T. Smith Lumber Co. v. Jernigan, supra; Gulf Yellow Pine Lumber Co. v. Monk, 159 Ala. 318 , 49 So. 248 .

Brown v. State

240 Ala. 589 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Feb 27, 1941

GARDNER, Chief Justice., Petition of James Brown for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that Court, in the case styled Brown v. State, 200 So. 630 . Writ denied.

State v. Brown

514 So. 2d 836 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jul 10, 1987

Reversed and remanded on the authority of City of Dothan v. Holloway, 501 So.2d 1136 (Ala.1986). REVERSED AND REMANDED. TORBERT, C.J., and MADDOX, HOUSTON and STEAGALL, JJ., concur.

Brown v. Higginbottom

19 Ala. 207 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jan 15, 1851

This is the construction put upon the statute of 1835, in the case of Van Cleave v. Haworth, 5 Ala. 179 *209 which was examined and re-affirmed in the case of Shackelford v. Miller, at the present term.

Ashworth v. Brown

240 Ala. 164 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Oct 10, 1940

From these it appears that local church property is held by a board of trustees. … Morgan et al. v. Gabard et al., 176 Ala. 568 , 58 So. 902 ; Manning et al. v. Yeager et al., 201 Ala. 599 , 79 So. 19 ; Dunn et al. v. Ellisor, 225 Ala. 15 , 141 So. 700, 706 ; 54 C.J. p. 79, § 175.

Brown v. Lyon

17 Ala. 659 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jan 15, 1850

Hence *662 the opinion in -Elmes v. Sutherland, 7 Ala. 262 , and other similar cases, does not affect the present question-." In the case of Elmes v. … It was held in Grimshaw & Brown v. Walker, 12 Ala. Rep. 101 , that an express stipulation of this sort made the deed void, because the deed in that case required certain of the creditors to release their claims.

Brown v. Williams

576 So. 2d 195 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Feb 15, 1991

Co. v. Trane Co. , 499 So.2d 1385 (Ala. 1986). … See, also, Waters v. Merritt , 277 Ala. 346 , 170 So.2d 492 (1964), and Cambron v. Carlisle , 406 So.2d 865 (Ala. 1981).

Fraley v. Brown

460 So. 2d 1267 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Nov 30, 1984

In Carr v. Dunn , 384 So.2d 7 , 9 (Ala. 1980), this court reviewed that subject, quoting as follows from Jacoway v. … Under Item V, Brown created a residuary trust and provided for its termination twenty years from the date of his death, "[e]xcept as provided in ITEM SIX."

Brown v. State

395 So. 2d 124 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Mar 24, 1981

Brown v. State

291 Ala. 774 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 28, 1973

Petition of Herbert Lewis Brown and Arthur Lee Gipson for Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that Court in Brown and Gipson, alias v.

Brown v. Yielding

206 Ala. 504 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Oct 20, 1921

Co. v. … Jordan v. A. G. S. R. R. Co., 81 Ala. 220 , 8 South. 191 ; Hanchey v. Brunson, 175 Ala. 236 , 56 South. 971 , Ann. Cas. 1914C, 804.

Swanson v. Brown

160 Ala. 432 · Supreme Court of Alabama · May 24, 1909

The action was commenced in a justice’s court; Brown being plaintiff, and Swanson defendant. In the complaint the claim was for “1,200 pounds seed cotton, rent of the Mose Williams place for the year 1906.” … The title to the land cannot be tried, as would necessarily result, in assumpsit. — Price v. Pickett, 21 Ala. 741 .

Brown v. Barr

269 Ala. 497 · Supreme Court of Alabama · Jun 25, 1959

This suit was brought in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County by Billy Barr against Stanley and Leslie Brown. … See Prescott v. Metropolitan Life Ins.