Blake v. Blake
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County. Hon. E. W. Cabaniss, Chancellor. The complainant, as administrator and as a creditor of the estate of Michael Blake, Sen., deceased, filed his bill in equity against the defendants.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County. Hon. E. W. Cabaniss, Chancellor. The complainant, as administrator and as a creditor of the estate of Michael Blake, Sen., deceased, filed his bill in equity against the defendants. The bill alleged that in September, 1859, the complainant became, and is now, administrator of said estate; that he is also a large creditor of the intestate, having an account probated, registered, allowed, and wholly unpaid, for $2,833.28, with six per cent per annum interest from 1st January, 1857 ; that there are a number of other creditors whose claims have been…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The appellee exhibited his bill in chancery as administrator and as creditor of Michael Blake, deceased, and stated that he *192had applied to the Chancery Court, in which the estate was being administered, to sell certain land described to pay debts existing against the estate, including his own; and that in answer to his said application the defendants to this bill asked to have said application to sell land refused, because they alleged that said land never did belong to the complainant’s intestate, but to Michael Blake, Jun., under whom they all claim, and that they had a deed which conveyed…
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