Kearny v. Jeffries
Mississippi Supreme Court
Adpeal from the chancery court of Claiborne county. As to complainants, Jeffries surely delivered by placing the deed in Mrs. Routh’s possession, and putting it in her power to use it; and she surely accepted by haying possession of it, giving it to her husband, and by his exhibiting it to complainants.
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Adpeal from the chancery court of Claiborne county. As to complainants, Jeffries surely delivered by placing the deed in Mrs. Routh’s possession, and putting it in her power to use it; and she surely accepted by haying possession of it, giving it to her husband, and by his exhibiting it to complainants. They state in the bill, and in the answer to the cross-bill — which is testimony for complainants, and is nowhere denied — that Job Routh did show them the deed, and that they sold the goods to her and gave her the credit upon the faith of it. The magistrate’s certificate, in which Jeffries…
1Opinion of the Court
SlMRALL, J. :
The .appellants and Wood & McGinnis purchased the “ Contentment ” plantation, or the life estate of Mrs. Itouth therein, under a judgment against Job Routh and wife, and a decree in a chancery suit set out in the pleadings.
The original bill alleged that the father of Mrs. Routh, sometime before the recovery of the judgment and decree, had conveyed this property, consisting of 2,400 acres, to his daughter, Mrs. Routh, for life, remainder to her two infant children; that this deed was suppressed, and had never been put on record; concluding with a prayer for a discovery by what…
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