Blue Lands Development, Inc. v. Broadus

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““The issue presented: Absent consent of a life tenant, can a cotenant (joint owner of a vested remainder interest in real property) maintain an action to partition or sell for [division of the proceeds] pursuant to Code 1975, § 35-6-20, subject to the existing life estate? “The trial court answered this question in the negative, dismissing the suit for partition or sale for division of the proceeds. We affirm on the authority of Chapman v. York, 208 Ala. 274 , 94 So. 90 (1922). See, also, Bedsole v. Bedsole, 272 Ala. 589 , 133 So.2d 237 (1961); and Michael v. Davis, 372 So.2d 304 (Ala.1979).””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Laired v. Salata