Fletcher v. Wilson
Mississippi Chancery Courts
The record in this case is very voluminous, and the pleadings complicated. An attempt will be made, however, for the purpose of exhibiting the facts upon which the Chancellor based his opinion, to give a full yet succinct history of the case. To do this, it will not be necessary to abstract in full the various bills, answers, cross-bills, amended bills, and exhibits, which constitute the case, and have swelled the record to its present size.
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The record in this case is very voluminous, and the pleadings complicated. An attempt will be made, however, for the purpose of exhibiting the facts upon which the Chancellor based his opinion, to give a full yet succinct history of the case. To do this, it will not be necessary to abstract in full the various bills, answers, cross-bills, amended bills, and exhibits, which constitute the case, and have swelled the record to its present size. Such portions only will be presented as bear upon the merits of the controversy. William Wilson, and ^Joseph Conn, in January, 1836, sold a lot in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Chancellor.
In January, 1836, the complainant purchased from the defendants, Wilson and Conn, a house and lot in the city of Natchez, for which a deed was then executed, and acknowledged, *388and recorded, and then taken by the defendants, under a promise to procure the signatures and acknowledgment of their respective wives to said deed, and return it to the complainant. The complainant, at the same time, reconveyed the same lot to the defendants, by way of mortgage, to secure a balance of the purchase-money, falling due thereafter. In February, 1839, suit was brought at law for the recovery of…
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