Block v. Cross
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Madison county. Hon. E. G. Henry, chancellor. The substance of the pleadings is fully set out in the opinion of the court; it will be necessary only to add more in detail the evidence in the cause.
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Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Madison county. Hon. E. G. Henry, chancellor. The substance of the pleadings is fully set out in the opinion of the court; it will be necessary only to add more in detail the evidence in the cause. The complainants read in evidence a duly authenticated transcript of the records of the Superior Court of Equity of Northampton county, in the State of North Carolina, by which it appeared that, at the fall term, A. D. 1851, of said- court, Cross and wife filed their bill against E. J. Peebles, the executor of Mrs. Martha B. Turner, and the trustee of Mrs. Cross,…
1Opinion of the Court
HáNDY, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant, as surviving partner of the mercantile firm of Block & Turner, filed this bill, for the purpose of subjecting the proceeds and income of certain property belonging to the appellee, Martha J. Cross, and held to her sole and separate use, to the payment of an account for goods and merchandise, sold to her.
The allegations of the original and amended bills, are in substance, that Mrs. Cross, in the month of December, 1851, came to reside at Monticello, in this State, with her family, consisting of five children and several servants, —…
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