WILLIAMS v. FIRST NAT. BANK OF MOBILE

78-869, 78-870.

384 So.2d 89 (1980)

Clayton W. WILLIAMS, Jr., Johnny May and H. W. Souther v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MOBILE et al. Calvin N. SOUTHER and Edwin D. Souther v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MOBILE et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norborne C. Stone, Jr. of Stone & Partin, Bay Minette, Sam W. Pipes and Norton Brooker, Jr. of Lyons, Pipes & Cook, Mobile, for appellants Clayton W. Williams, Jr., et al.

William W. Stoudenmire of Pillans, Reams, Tappan, Wood, Roberts & Vollmer, P. C., Sterling F. Stoudenmire, Jr., Mobile, for appellants Calvin N. Souther and Edwin D. Souther.

Albert W. Key of Hamilton, Butler, Riddick, Tarlton & Allen, Mobile, for appellees, The First National Bank of Mobile, etc., et al.

Robert P. Denniston of Gallalee, Denniston, Cherniak & Moon, Mobile, for appellee, Denniston Land Trust.


MADDOX, Justice.

These appeals involve the validity and constitutionality of the so-called Grove Act in a case involving the oil, gas and mineral rights to over 10,000 acres of land located in Baldwin County.

In 1942, Denniston-Boykin Company, Inc. and Baldwin Timber and Naval Stores Company, Inc., filed a bill of complaint in the circuit court of Baldwin County, sitting in equity, in which they alleged that they jointly held title in fee simple to the subject...

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