Lee v. Wilkinson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Harrison connty. HoN. T. A. Wood, Chancellor. Snit by Mary M. Lee against M. M. Wilkinson. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Harrison connty. HoN. T. A. Wood, Chancellor. Snit by Mary M. Lee against M. M. Wilkinson. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The decision should be reversed. 1. The entire inadequacy between what this man claims to have paid for the property, being a sum of twenty-six dollars, and the value of the property, which is shown to be about four hundred dollars, shocks the conscience; itself is evidence of fraud, as this court held in the case decided last week of Baldwyn v. Anderson. In that…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.
Mary M. Lee, the appellant, in common parlance, is a “nigger” woman. M. M. Wilkinson, appellee, a white man, doing business under the euphonious pseudonym “Standard Loan & Pawn Brokerage Company,” is what is commonly termed a “loan shark.” Mary is illiterate, but not ignorant. She, like many of her class, fell into the maw of the “shark,” and the net result of her adventure was the loss of two residence lots in the thriving city of Gulfport, for which she received in return,, according to her statement, the munificent sum of fifteen dollars — according to appellee’s statement, eighteen…
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