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152 Ala. 259

Everett v. Jordan

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 30, 1906

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1906-06-30

Ejectment. Appeal from Houston Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Terry Bichardson, Special Judge. Ejectment by H. C. Jordan and others against Jane Everett and others. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal. The cause was tried on an agreed statement of facts, as follows: The land in controversy originally belonged to the partnership of J. Jordan & Co., composed of Junius Jordan and F. Bosa Simonson.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1923

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Relies on Jordan v. Phillips & Crew Co.

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Affirmed · Decided 1906-06-30

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DOWDELL, J.

¶1On the facts here presented, it was decided in Jordan v. Phillips, 126 Ala. 561, 29 South. 831, that the legal title to the land in question was in the appellees. The power contained in the habendum clause of the deed was one that was dependent upon the *262existence of a valid trust. The failure to create by the deed a valid trust, and the vesting of the legal title under the statute of uses in the appellees, rendered the power expressed in the habendum clause, which was evidently intended as a power to be exercised only in the event of a creation of a valid trust, and not as an express grant of power under the statute, of no effect. Neither of the sections of the Code of 1896 from 1046 to 1050, inclusive, have any application to the case.

¶2Affirmed.

Tyson, C. J., and Haralson, Simpson, Anderson, and Denson,. JJ., concur.
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