Beaver v. Crump
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Clay county. Hon. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. The facts are fully stated in the briefs of counsel and the opinion of the court. The appellants, Carey Beaver et al., were the complainants in the court below. Tbe demurrer to the cross bill, filed by Mrs. Alice H. Crump, presents the question as to the rights of Mrs. Crump to the property of Seth P. Pool, deceased.
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From the chancery court of Clay county. Hon. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. The facts are fully stated in the briefs of counsel and the opinion of the court. The appellants, Carey Beaver et al., were the complainants in the court below. Tbe demurrer to the cross bill, filed by Mrs. Alice H. Crump, presents the question as to the rights of Mrs. Crump to the property of Seth P. Pool, deceased. The facts, as developed by the record, are that, in 1887, Seth P. Pool instituted in the circuit court of clay county proceedings for the adoption of the appellee, who was then Miss Alice Hulsey, and a…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
The appellants, as the legal heirs of one Seth P. Pool, exhibited their bill in the chancery court of Clay county, on the 27th day of April, 1897, in conformity to the provisions of “An act to provide a record of the descent of property, real and personal, in cases where persons die wholly or partially intestate” (acts of 1896, pp. 102, 103), seeking thereby to have themselves declared the heirs at law of said decedent, and to be placed in possession of his estate, and seeking to have canceled as a cloud upon their title the claim of Mrs. Crump to the estate, as decedent’s sole heir under…
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