Seals v. Williams
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, second district, Bolivar county. Hon. Frank A. Montgomery, Judge. Mrs. Seals, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; Williams and others, appellees, were defendants there. The appellant brought this action of unlawful entry and detainer against the appellees for the possession of a certain tract of land in Bolivar county.
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From the circuit court of, second district, Bolivar county. Hon. Frank A. Montgomery, Judge. Mrs. Seals, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; Williams and others, appellees, were defendants there. The appellant brought this action of unlawful entry and detainer against the appellees for the possession of a certain tract of land in Bolivar county. The appellant claimed under sales for taxes made more than three years before the institution of the action, and the appellees under the original owners. In July, 1900, appellant obtained from the state a patent pun-porting to convey, as tax…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The earlier English statutes, and the earlier English decisions upon them, and many decisions in the states of the United States, define the meaning of the word “forcible,” in statutes of this kind, as importing the idea of taking possession of land with “a strong hand,” with “a multitude of people,” and with “threats of personal injury-to the occupant” sought to be expelled. This is shown in the note to Evill v. Conwell, 18 Am. Dec., at page 145. And Mr. Freeman also shows, at pages 146 and 14Y, that the statutes of Mississippi, Dakota, and…
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