Ladner v. Ogden
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the District Chancery Court at Mississippi City. Hon. B. C. Buckley, vice-chancellor. A full statement of the facts will be found in the opinion of the court. Filed a petition for re-argument, in which he insisted, that the opinion of the court was correct, when applied to cross-bills, filed for defence only.
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In error from the District Chancery Court at Mississippi City. Hon. B. C. Buckley, vice-chancellor. A full statement of the facts will be found in the opinion of the court. Filed a petition for re-argument, in which he insisted, that the opinion of the court was correct, when applied to cross-bills, filed for defence only. But when the cross-bill was filed for independent relief, although touching the same subject-matter embraced in the original suit, it must be regarded as in the nature of an original bill. That by the English practice, a cross-bill for relief might be filed in a different…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This bill was filed in the Yice-Chancery Court of Mississippi City, by John Ramon, against Robert N. Ogden and others, the appellees.
The object of the suit was to establish the complainant’s title to certain real property, situated in the town of Shieldsborough, Hancock county, held adversely by the defendants, and to recover possession of the same.
To render intelligible the questions presented by the record, a brief recital of the material facts, as they are alleged in the bills, answers and cross-bills, is indispensable.
By the bill, it appears that the complainant, Ramon, in 1821, at New…
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