Boon v. Barnes
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the district chancery court at Carrollton; Hon. Henry Dickinson, chancellor. The record shows that on the 14th of October, 1836, John B. Wood, in his lifetime, sold to James Blackburn the tract of land in controversy, and executed to Blackburn a bond for title.
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In error from the district chancery court at Carrollton; Hon. Henry Dickinson, chancellor. The record shows that on the 14th of October, 1836, John B. Wood, in his lifetime, sold to James Blackburn the tract of land in controversy, and executed to Blackburn a bond for title. That Blackburn paid part of the purchase-money and executed his writing obligatory for the balance, amounting to |1550, payable on or before the 1st day of January, 1838; and subsequent to the contract, Wood died, and John Boon became his administrator. On the 2d of April, 1838, the probate court of Yalabusha county…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sharkey
The object of this bill is to enforce a vendor’s lien. The complainant’s intestate, Jno. B. Wood, in his lifetime had sold a tract of land to James Blackburn, and had made a bond for title. After Wood’s death, the probate court directed Boon the administrator to make title to Blackburn, according *138to the provision of the statute conferring such power on the court. Hutch. Code, 471, sec. 114. Boon made the title according to the order of the court, on the 18th of December, 1838.
In August, 1838, the complainant brought suit against Blackburn for the purchase-money, and in September of the same…
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