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180 Ala. 258

Tribble v. Patton

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 16, 1913

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1913-01-16

Heard before Hon. A. H. Benners. Bill by George Tribble against Burns Patton. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the bill, complainant appeals.

Relies on Ex parte Smith

Affirmed · Decided 1913-01-16

McCLELLAN, J.

¶1This appeal is from the decree of March 13, 1912, sustaining appellee’s demurrer to appellant’s bill as last amended, originally exhibited July 17, 1911. The sole object of this bill appears to have been to impeach the decree of September 16, 1910, for fraud. It is not a bill of review, strictly.—Ex parte Smith, 34 Ala. 455. As last amended, the bill assumed to sustain its imputation of fraud by averring the omission of Patton, in his bill against Tribble, to allege that there was no suit pending to enforce or test the validity, etc., of Tribble’s claim to the lot described in that bill. Obviously that was not fraud in any degree. The demurrer to the bill as last amended was properly sustained, since, upon its only theory, it was without equity.

¶2The decree must be affirmed.

¶3Affirmed.

Dowdell, C. J., and Sayre and Somerville, JJ., concur.
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