Gilchrist-Fordney Co. v. Keyes
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Smith county. HoN. Sam WhitmaN, Chancellor. Suit hy Gilchrist-Fordney Company and others. From a decree sustaining a demurrer to amended hill of complaint, complainant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opiidon of the court. The deed of conveyance was valid and vested in the grantee and his assignees the right to cut and appropriate the timber whenever it could he lawfully done.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Smith county. HoN. Sam WhitmaN, Chancellor. Suit hy Gilchrist-Fordney Company and others. From a decree sustaining a demurrer to amended hill of complaint, complainant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opiidon of the court. The deed of conveyance was valid and vested in the grantee and his assignees the right to cut and appropriate the timber whenever it could he lawfully done. Gaston v. Lumber Go., 60 So. 668. The hoard of supervisors of Smith county could sell the right to cut and remove the timber only to or with the consent of the lessee of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSteveNs, J.
Appellant prosecutes this appeal from a decree of the chancery court of Smith county sustaining a demurrer to an amended bill of complaint exhibited by appellant, as complainant in the court below, against appelless, by which it is sought to reform a deed conveying timber rights on sixteenth section lands, and by which it is further sought to quiet and confirm the alleged title of the complainants in the merchantable timber on the lands described in the bill. It is charged in the amended bill that appellees E. B. Keyes and Homer Currie were tenants in common of the unexpired lease of said…
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