Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama (Volume 186) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Excerpt: ... Wright v. Bentfey dumber Co., et al.] Louisa Wright to Stokes & Parrish was a material defect.-- Frederick v. Wilcox, 119 Ala. 355, 24 South. 582, 72 Am. St. Rep. 925. Moreover, if this acknowledgment was defective, it did not affect the validity of the deed, as the separate acknowledgment of the wife is not questioned, and the deed was legally attested both as to her and the husband by subscribing witnesses. So this defect, if such there was, did not affect the validity of the deed, but merely affected the use of same as evidence, and no objection was made to same upon the theory that the acknowledgement was defective, and it was not therefore selfproving. It was not subject to the grounds of objection assigned to same, and, had an appropriate objection been made, the defendants could, no doubt, have proved the execution as to the husband by a subscribing witness. The judgment of the circuit court is reversed, and the cause is remanded. Reversed and remanded. Mayfield, Somerville, and Gardner, JJ., concur. Ala. Int. Power Co. v. Mt. Veruon-Woodberry Cotton Duck Co., et al., and Tallassee Falls Mfg. Co... et al. v. Ala. Int. Power Co.. et al.] Alabama Interstate Power Co. v. Mt. VernonWoodberry Cotton Duck Co., et al., and Tallassee Falls Mfg. Co., et al. v. Ala. Interstate Power Co., et al. Eminent Domain. (Decided December 4, 1913. Rehearing denied May 14, 1914. 65 South. 287.) 1. Electricity: Corporation; Power.--A foreign corporation organized to produce and supply to the public light, heat, power and any other thing to which electricity or other form of energy is now or may hereafter be applied, has authority to construct, maintain and operate utilities, plants, and machinery to generate electricity by water power artificially created, and to transmit such powers so generated...