Edmunds v. Mister
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Grenada County. Hon. Samuel Powell, Judge. The case is stated in the opinion of the court. The debts of a minor, not for necessaries, are not legal debts at all.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Grenada County. Hon. Samuel Powell, Judge. The case is stated in the opinion of the court. The debts of a minor, not for necessaries, are not legal debts at all. Smith v. Mayo, 9 Mass. 62 ; Allen v. Poole, 54 Miss. 331. Was the deed made, by Edmunds to his daughter, the appellant, for the express purpose of disaffirming his minority debts (debts not for necessaries), a sufficient disaffirmance? He made the deed for that identical purpose, in lieu of pleadiug minority, and as a mode of asserting the privilege of minority. “Any act unequivocally manifesting an…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, C. J.
^/Robert H. Edmunds, a young man of handsome estate, be*772came of age on the 12th of July, 1859. He was already burdened with debts, contracted by him during minority, amounting to about $2,000, and on the 19th of March, 1860, without having theretofore done anything either in affirmance or in disaffirmance of these debts, he executed and placed on record a deed whereby he conveyed the bulk of his estate, real and personal, to his infant daughter, then two months of age, for and during the term of her natural life, leaving the reversion in himself. He declared at the time that he intended by the…
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