The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
MAY ENRICH VERT.
Decision of Supreme Court Affects Decatu -'- pro-,erty,

| Decisjon of Supreme Court Affects Decatur | -' t Property. | r.o,,rr Dee .S-(SpeciaL )--According l to a decision just haEded down by the su- preme Court of Aararna. some Of the pest | lawyers in the Decaturs say that Thomas l Vert of Decatur and his sister. Mrs. Frank | StahIman, of Nashville. Tenn will come in | to the possession of property in New De
 catur valued in the neishborhood Of mil 1 lion dollars.
 The property involved includes the lands | now occupied by the American Oak Tanning l Company and Oak Extract Works and some | thing like fifty cottages. The fannery ana oak extract works arc ownsd principally l by James E. Mooney. the millionaire leath- | CT manufacturer Of Cincinnai. Ohio. put | who for the past few years has beer making | his home in New Decatur. This is said to | be the largest sola leather tannery in the | United States if not in the world. The status of the case si that several years ago the grandfather of Thomas Vert | and his sister, Mrs. Frank stahlman' or | Nashville. Tenn. died, willing this property | to Thomas Vert and sister Mr9. Stahlman | The property was iater sold during the mi nority of Mir. Vert and his sister, Mrs stahlrnnn... At the time the fatheT of Tim Vert Hon. Dennis Vert, prominent lawyer | of Decatur caused to be issued and distrib- | uted hand bills warning would he purchasers | from buying this property. statins in tho | bills that his children were heirs to the os- | tate
 Some time ago the Will or IhomaS SflppS was offered for probation in the probate l court of this county and the probation of the ! will was contested by W. Gibbs Henry, \ cousin of Thomas Werts. The probate court | decided that the will should te probated I The case was taken up to the Supreme Court l from the Probate Court and the Supreme ' Court has just decided the case in favor of Tom Vert and his sister, Mrs. Stahfman. l The decision of the Supreme Court, of | course, means that the will must be pro hateJ and by It's probation NIT. Vert and | his sister will be given title to the prop | erty involved.
 | The next step Mir. Vert will have to take | in the matter. altar the probarion of the | will, Is the trial of ejectment proceedings | now pending In the circuit court of this l county. Some time ago Mir. Vert and his | sister filed over fifty ejectnent suits in the 1 circuit court of this city. but as yet these | suits have never come to trial. They will
 l probably come to trial at the April term of
 | the circuit court in 1906.
 | Tom Vert Is one of the promine mt young | lawyers of the Decatur bar. He is the son
 l of Hon. S T. Vert. one of the most noted | criminal lawyers in North Alabama. Tom
 | Vert practices law in Decatur with his fs-
 ther. under the firm name of Vert l Vert
 l The opinion as giver by the Supreme
 | Court In this case Is the subject of much
 l comment among the members of the Morgan
 l county bar.
 Much of the property involved in the ease
 l has been sold a number of times and most
 | of it is now improved and lies in what is l known as East Decatur, in New Decatur. When the grandfather of Tom Vert. Thom-
 as Gibbs. died the property involved was l cotton plantation.