Tinnin v. Price
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the superior court of chancery; Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. This was a bill filed by Robert S. Price, the defendant in error, who intermarried with Nancy Price, formerly Nancy Tinnin, in August, 1852, to have a receiver appointed to take charge of certain personal property taken possession of by H. P. Tinnin, administrator of _ Nancy Tinnin, deceased.
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On appeal from the superior court of chancery; Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. This was a bill filed by Robert S. Price, the defendant in error, who intermarried with Nancy Price, formerly Nancy Tinnin, in August, 1852, to have a receiver appointed to take charge of certain personal property taken possession of by H. P. Tinnin, administrator of _ Nancy Tinnin, deceased. The property, it seems, was returned by the administrator to the probate court as the property of Nancy Tinnin, deceased. The chancery court appointed a receiver as prayed for; and Tinnin, the administrator, prayed an appeal…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fisher
delivered the' opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a decree of the superior court of chancery, appointing a receiver to take possession of and hold the property in controversy.
It appears by the allegations of the bill, that the complainant, in the month of August, 1852, intermarried with one Nancy Tinnin, a resident of Hinds county; that the said Nancy, at the time of the marriage, had in her possession, as owner, certain goods and chattels, now the subject of controversy; that in virtue of the said marriage, the title to said property vested in the complainant; that the said Nancy…
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