Ward v. Dulaney
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the superior chancery court; Hon. Stephen Cocke, chancellor. This was a suit originally instituted by bill in the superior chancery court by "Ward and others, claiming to be the-hens of Mrs. Loomis, to annul a marriage contract which Mrs. Loomis had before her death entered into with Daniel M. Dulaney, the defendant in error, and also to obtain possession of all the property Dulaney obtained by his marriage with Mrs. 'Loomis in her lifetime.
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In error from the superior chancery court; Hon. Stephen Cocke, chancellor. This was a suit originally instituted by bill in the superior chancery court by "Ward and others, claiming to be the-hens of Mrs. Loomis, to annul a marriage contract which Mrs. Loomis had before her death entered into with Daniel M. Dulaney, the defendant in error, and also to obtain possession of all the property Dulaney obtained by his marriage with Mrs. 'Loomis in her lifetime. The facts of the case as shown by the record are, that in the state of North Carolina, in June 1826, Dulaney was married to Mrs. Loomis,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Yerger
In the year 1842, the complainants, all of whom are minors, suing by their next friend, George W. Penn, except Eliza Jane Hall, who joins with her husband, filed their bill in the superior court of chancery, claiming by representation in place of their father, Eli W. Ward, deceased, to be the heirs at law and distributees according to the laws of North Carolina, of their grand aunt, Alice Dulaney or Loomis, who, it is alleged, died intestate and unmarried in Onslow county, North Carolina, on the —day of September, in the year 1836. The bill states that Alice, the aunt of the complainants, was…
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