Lyon v. Arndt

• Court: Alabama Supreme Court
• Writing for the Court: ANDERSON, J.
• Citation: Lyon v. Arndt, 142 Ala. 486, 38 So. 242 (Ala. 1905)
• Decision Date: 10 January 1905
• Parties: LYON v. ARNDT.

38 So. 242

142 Ala. 486

LYON v. ARNDT.

Supreme Court of Alabama

January 10, 1905

Appeal from Chancery Court, Mobile County; Thomas H. Smith Chancellor.

Suit by Emily C. Lyon against George C. Arndt. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. Affirmed.

The bill was filed under the statute authorizing the filing of bills in chancery to quiet title, and to determine claims for real estate. In the bill the complainant averred that she was in the actual, peaceable possession of the lands described claiming to own and did own the same. The other averments of the bill were in substantial compliance with the statute. The respondent, in his answer, denied that the complainant owned the lands or was in peaceable possession of them before the institution of the suit, and averred that at the time of the institution of the suit the complainant's title and right to possession were disputed. The evidence introduced was in irreconcilable conflict; the testimony for the complainant tending to show that her agent had built a one-room house on the lands before the institution of the suit, and that timber had been cut from the land under her authority, while the testimony for the defendant tended to show that he purchased the lands after the institution of the suit, and that his grantors and those through whom he claimed had been in peaceable possession of the lands for many years. On the final submission of the cause upon the pleadings and proof the chancellor decreed that the complainant was not entitled to relief, and ordered the bill dismissed; he reciting in his opinion that the...