Gill v. Riley

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Chancery Court of Marion County, Mississippi, sustaining a motion of appellees to strike the answer of appellants and awarding appellees relief sought by their bill of complaint, the appellants having declined to plead further.

*773Appellees filed their hill in the chancery court “to cancel claim of the defendants to ownership of the land in question, joining Jimmie Gill, Citizens Bank and A. A. Buckley, Trustees, as defendants.” The bill averred title to this property had passed from the United States of America to Blodgett and that by mesne…