Bates v. McClellan

This is an appeal from the refusal of the chancery court to set aside decrees pro confesso against appellants.

The action was taken under these circumstances:

Ceasar Bates departed this life intestate in 1900, owning, among other lands, the NE]4 of the NE% of Section 3, Township 4, Range 9 in Pike County, Mississippi.

Henry McClellan, the appellee on this appeal, filed the bill in this cause, asserting in himself an interest, as one of the heirs of Ceasar Bates, in the lands owned by Ceasar at ,the time of his death, making defendants to the bill the other heirs of Ceasar Bates, or the grantees *864o…