Nye v. Winborn
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Covington County. HoN. D. M. Russell, Chancellor. Bill by W. C. Winborn against Craig Nye and others who filed an answer, and. cross-hill. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Covington County. HoN. D. M. Russell, Chancellor. Bill by W. C. Winborn against Craig Nye and others who filed an answer, and. cross-hill. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Section 2146 and 2147 of the .Code of 1906, are the statutes for homestead exemptions for the country and city; hut no provision in either section permits the city exemptionist to hold exempt an eighty-acre farm two and one-half miles out in the country, because he grew, thereon, agricultural products for a living.…
1Opinion of the CourtSykes, J.
The appellee, W. C. Winborn, filed a bill in the chancery court to remove clouds from his title to eighty acres of land and to cancel a deed made to appellants by the sheriff in pursuance of a sale under an execution. An answer and cross-bill. was filed by the defendants in the court below, appellants here. In the cross-bill they ask for a decree for rent of the land in controversy. The cause was tried on pleadings and testimony, and a decree was entered in accordance with the prayer of the bill, removing the clouds from 'the title and canceling the sale under the execution. From which decree…
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