Supreme Court of Alabama, 1922

Musgrove v. Achaelis

Musgrove v. Achaelis
Supreme Court of Alabama · Decided May 11, 1922 · McClellan, Anderson, Somerville, Thomas
93 So. 387; 207 Ala. 479; 1922 Ala. LEXIS 160 (Southern Reporter)

Musgrove v. Achaelis

Opinion of the Court

McCLELLAN, j.

[1,2] This bill, filed by appellee against L. B. Musgrove and others, seeks the sale of lands for division of the proceeds among tenants in common. The bill’s averments of the necessity for the sale for division are sufficient. Musgrove v. Aldridge, 205 Ala. 189, 87 South. 803, and authorities therein cited. The description of the real estate is not void upon its face.

The ground of demurrer addressed to the feature of the bill praying the ascertainment and payment of attorney’s fees, in the contingency prescribed in the statute, was overruled without error; that phase of the prayer being surplusage. Smith v. Witcher, 180 Ala. 102, 105, 60 South. 391.

The decree overruling the demurrers of appellants is affirmed.

ANDERSON, C. J., and SOMERVILLE and THOMAS, JJ., concur.

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