Boyle v. Griffin
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the chancery court of Tallahatchie county. Hon. Carey C. Moodey, Chancellor. Griffin, guardian, appellee, was complainant, and Boyle, guardian, appellant, was defendant in the court below. The suit was an attachment in chancery against a nonresident defendant. Prom a decree largely in complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in' the opinion of the court.
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Prom the chancery court of Tallahatchie county. Hon. Carey C. Moodey, Chancellor. Griffin, guardian, appellee, was complainant, and Boyle, guardian, appellant, was defendant in the court below. The suit was an attachment in chancery against a nonresident defendant. Prom a decree largely in complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in' the opinion of the court. The evidence establishes beyond dispute that Tryon changed his domicil from Tutwiler, IVEiss., to Memphis, Tenn., before his death. Tryon’s will commences thus: “I, Andrew E. Tryon, LATE…
1Opinion of the CourtCauuoon, J.
At one time there lived in this state a gentleman named Andrew E. Tryon. He was a chronic invalid. He had, at the-time this record is concerned, with him his three little motherless children, the survivors of a family of five of them. He seems to have been in life, and up to the hour of his death, .absolutely devoted to them, and all the time possessed with a fervent wish that they should be kept together and grow up with fraternal love and affection. Disease had for some years-made work for their support impossible to him. Struggle for a livelihood had to cease, but from no fault of his own.…
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