Cross v. Hedrick
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of the second district of Hinds county. Hon. Warren Cowan, Chancellor. In 1876 the appellee, Nancy W. Hedrick, owned certain property in the town of Bolton, where she resided, and a plantation near by. She was, and is yet, the wife of H. A. Hedrick.
Read the full summary
From the chancery court of the second district of Hinds county. Hon. Warren Cowan, Chancellor. In 1876 the appellee, Nancy W. Hedrick, owned certain property in the town of Bolton, where she resided, and a plantation near by. She was, and is yet, the wife of H. A. Hedrick. February 27, 1877, she and her husband executed to E. K. Myrick, a merchant in Bolton, a trust-deed on her town lots, and the crops to be grown on her plantation that year, to secure a debt consisting of a small balance of account due by H. A. Hedrick, and for goods which the deed recited were to be advanced to the grantors…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
The appellee is precluded of all relief sought by her on the facts stated in her bill by the lapse of time and her acquiescence in what was done by the creditor, Myrick, in securing the payment of the account as rendered by him to the appellee and her husband.
The deed of trust given to secure the payment of the account to be thereafter contracted, designated both herself and her husband as parties to whom the goods were to be sold ; the accounts were kept by the merchant in their joint names, and were by him so rendered to them. No objection was then made that the debt was due by the husband…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Walker v. RossMississippi Supreme Court · 1888
3Cited by1 opinion
- Sevier v. MinnisMississippi Supreme Court · 1893