Stauffer v. British & American Mortgage Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Ekom the chancery court of Tallahatchie county. HoN. A. H. LoNgiNO, Chancellor. Robert E. Stauffer and others, appellants, were the complainants in the court below; the British & American' Mortgage Company was defendant there. The opinion states the case. Appellants, infants, and their mother inherited from their father the notes sued on before they became due.
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Ekom the chancery court of Tallahatchie county. HoN. A. H. LoNgiNO, Chancellor. Robert E. Stauffer and others, appellants, were the complainants in the court below; the British & American' Mortgage Company was defendant there. The opinion states the case. Appellants, infants, and their mother inherited from their father the notes sued on before they became due. Counsel for the appellees, assuming that the notes constitute a joint, and not a joint and several, claim, and that the mother would have beep, barred wheu the bill was filed had she not previously cancelled her interest, invoke the…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
Emile Stauffer, on the sixth of December, 1883, sold and conveyed to I. & E. Blackwell a valuable tract of land in Tal-lahatchie county, reserving a vendor’s lien for $2,011.50, due and owing by their promissory notes, and payable,1 the first note for $517.50, on the fifteenth of November, 1884, and the other three notes, for $500 each, on the fifteenth of November, 1885, 1886, and 1887, respectively, and each of these notes was payable to Emile Stauffer or to his order or assigns.
Emile Stauffer died March 7, 1884, intestate, and without having assigned these notes, leaving as his heirs and…
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