Webster v. Skipwith
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the northern district chancery court at Her-nando ; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. Grey Skipwith, in the year 1838, purchased a tract of land from Henry Anderson, agent of the American Land Company, and he received Anderson’s bond for title. Skipwith rented the land to J. H. and F. G. Webster, and afterwards sold it to W. M. Winn, as agent of the Websters.
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On appeal from the northern district chancery court at Her-nando ; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. Grey Skipwith, in the year 1838, purchased a tract of land from Henry Anderson, agent of the American Land Company, and he received Anderson’s bond for title. Skipwith rented the land to J. H. and F. G. Webster, and afterwards sold it to W. M. Winn, as agent of the Websters. Skipwith had executed three notes for the purchase-money due on the land to the American Land Company, one of which he paid, and the other two remained unpaid, and upon one of these a judgment had been obtained in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice PIandy
This was a bill in chancery, filed to enjoin a judgment at law rendered in behalf of the appellee against William M. Winn, one of the appellants. The facts set forth in the pleadings and testimony are prolix and voluminous, and will only be noticed here in reference to the leading features of the ease, touching the questions of law arising in it.
It appears that in January, 1844, Skipwith bargained and sold to Winn a tract of land which Skipwith had previously purchased from the American Land Company, Winn paying to Skipwith $400 in cash, and giving him his note for the further sum of $400,…
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