Winn v. Dillon
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the northern district chancery court at Car- , rollton; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. The opinion of the court contains a statement of the facts of the case. Cited and commented on 1 Story, Eq. 307, 308; Murphy 'v. Sloan, 24 Miss.; Nelson v. Sims, 23 lb. 383. Cited in reply Acts of Legislature 1852, p. 47.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Handy
The appellant filed this bill in the district chancery court at Carrollton, setting forth the following facts.
That in the year 1852, he entered into a contract with William C. Dillon, the appellee, by which Dillon agreed, in consideration of the sum of $200, to be paid to him at Jackson by the 18th of November, 1852, to furnish the appellant information to enable him to enter one thousand acres of swamp lands belonging’to the State, and subject to entry under an act of the legislature; and accordingly, that Dillon furnished to the appellant the numbers of certain specified lands, at which…
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