Stuart v. Kennedy & Co.

Simon D. Stuart and Mary C. Stuart exhibited their bill in the chancery court of Tallahatchie county, Second district, against Kennedy & Co., the Mississippi Fire Insurance Company, and L. Barrett Jones, trustee, seeking to cancel a certain trust deed and quiet and vest title in complainants to certain lands as their homestead. To this bill the defendants interposed a demurrer, which demurrer was by the court sustained, and complainants, appellants here, were granted an appeal to settle the principles of the case.

The bill, as amended, sets out the pleadings and orders in three separate…