Phelps v. Harris
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi.' The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This was an action of ejectment for certain lands in Sharkie County, Mississippi, brought by Alonzo J. Phelps and Mary B. Phelps, his wife, the plaintiffs in error, against the defendants in error, of whom George C. Harris and Helen S. Harris, his wife, were admitted to defend as landlords, the other defendants being their tenants in possession of the property in dispute. The principal question in the case is, whether Henry W. Yick, father of the plaintiff, Mary B. Phelps, and trustee under a deed made by his wife, Sarah, in 1850, and also trustee under the will of his brother, Grey Jenkins…
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