Thompson v. Clay
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of "Washington connty. HoN. E. N. Thomas, Chancellor. Snit "by J. W. Thompson against Dick Clay and others. From a decree for respondents, complainants appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Under the facts in the case, the questions to he determined by the court were: First. Whether G-. Gr.
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Appeal from the chancery court of "Washington connty. HoN. E. N. Thomas, Chancellor. Snit "by J. W. Thompson against Dick Clay and others. From a decree for respondents, complainants appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Under the facts in the case, the questions to he determined by the court were: First. Whether G-. Gr. Clay, Jr., as the legitimate son of Ben Clay, deceased, was, -at the time of conveyance by him to the appellant, vested with a one-third interest which the said Ben owned in said land at the time of his death. Second. Whether the said Virginia Clay…
1Opinion of the Court
Etheidge, J.,
delivered^ the opinion of the court.
Appellant filed a bill in the chancery court alleging that Scott Clay died seized and possessed of certain *194lands therein described, and left as his heirs Ben Clay, deceased, Dick Clay, and Gr. Gr. Clay; that in 1890 Ben Clay married one Polly Johnson and had one son, Gr. Gr. Clay, Jr., who sold to the complainant his interest in the said land, claiming it to be a one-third interest, and prayed for a partition of the lands. The defendants Dick Clay and Gr. Gr. Clay answered the bill, and one Virginia Clay and Blanche Clay, a minor, intervened as…
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