Case ID: ala_190/html/0409-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ANDERSON, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State, for use Alabama Insane Hospital v. M. & O. R. R. Co.
    
      Bill to Settle Title to Land.
    
    (Decided November 7, 1914.
    Rehearing denied December 17, 1914.
    67 South. 286.)
    
      Public Lands; Conveyance; Evidence. — Acts .of April 14, 1911, (Acts 1911, p. 192) is not violative of the Federal or State Constitution.
    Appeal from Mobile Chancery Court.
    Heard before Hon. Thomas H. Smith.
    Bill by the State of Alabama for the use of the trustees of the Alabama Insane Hospital against the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company to settle title to land, and for an accouting for the lumber cut and manufactured from said land, and all turpentine and rosin obtained from the same. From a decree denying relief, complainants appeal.
    Affirmed.
    W. A. Gunter, and Samuel Will John, for appellant.
    S. R. Price and F. J. Yerger, for appellee.
   ANDERSON, C. J.

The legal questions involved in this appeal haye been fully discussed and considered by this court, and decided adversely to the contention of the appellant, and we do not feel disposed to depart from said' holding. — Jordan v. McClure Lumber Co., 170 Ala. 289, 54 South. 415; Turner v. Davis, 186 Ala. 77, 64 South. 958; Brannan v. Henry, 175 Ala. 454, 57 South. 967.

In the last case supra the constitutionality of the act of 1911 (page 192) was considered, and the same was declared to be constitutional, and we repeat that the said act is not repugnant to the federal or state Constitution. The act is unlike the one condemned in the-case of Bailey v. Alabama, 219 U. S. 219, 31 Sup. Ct. 145, 55 L. Ed. 191.

The decree of the chancery court is affirmed.

Affirmed.

McClellan, Mayfield, and Somerville, JJ , concur.