MARTIN v. SMITH

80-259.

404 So.2d 341 (1981)

Ruth MARTIN, et al. v. Margaret M. SMITH, et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. G. Speake of Speake, Speake & Reich, Moulton, for appellants.

W. H. Rogers, Moulton, for appellees.


EMBRY, Justice.

This appeal is from a final judgment ordering the public sale of several tracts of land for division of the proceeds among the owners who were tenants in common. The pivotal issue presents a novel question: whether a cotenant who conveys his present and expectancy interests in the lands to his fellow cotenants may thereafter inherit an interest in those lands from a cotenant grantee.

Plaintiffs filed this action seeking the sale for division...

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