Legal Opinion

Vaughan v. Cutrer

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1874PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from the chancery court of Pike county, Hon. E, G. Peyton, Jr., Chancellor, The facts of the case sufficiently appear in the opinion of the -court, Complainant filed her bill against defendants to set aside certain deeds of conveyance for fraud. Defendants filed several pleas in abatement.

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Appeal from the chancery court of Pike county, Hon. E, G. Peyton, Jr., Chancellor, The facts of the case sufficiently appear in the opinion of the -court, Complainant filed her bill against defendants to set aside certain deeds of conveyance for fraud. Defendants filed several pleas in abatement. Jane R. Cutrer setting out in hers that she had sold the land in question to another party who was not made defendant in the suit, The case being heard on the sufficiency of these pleas in law under sec. 1023 of Code, the Chancellor dismissed complainant’s bill without giving leave to amend, and…

1Opinion of the Court

Peyton, O. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court;

On a bill filed in the chancery court of Pike ■ county, by Aby J. Vaughan, against W. C. Cutrer, to reform a deed of conveyance of certain lands therein specified, a decree was made on the 28th day of January, A. D. 1873, granting the relief sought by the bill, from which decree an appeal was taken by the defendant, to the supreme court. After the expiration of the term of the court at which said decree was rendered, the said Aby J. Vaughan filed in said court a supplemental bill, in the nature of a bill of review, against the defendant in said…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Brown v. WessonMississippi Supreme Court · 1917
  2. Felder v. McCormickMississippi Supreme Court · 1941
  3. Williams v. WilliamsMississippi Supreme Court · 1936

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