Pouns v. Gartman
Mississippi Supreme Court
ON appeal from the southern district chancery court at Monticello; Hon. James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. This was a bill filed in the vice-chancery court at Monticello, .by the heirs of Joseph Pouns, and the bill charges as follows: — On the 14th March, 1842, Z. E. Pendleton departed this life, intestate, leaving no children, but complainant, E. C. Pendle-ton, his widow.
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ON appeal from the southern district chancery court at Monticello; Hon. James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. This was a bill filed in the vice-chancery court at Monticello, .by the heirs of Joseph Pouns, and the bill charges as follows: — On the 14th March, 1842, Z. E. Pendleton departed this life, intestate, leaving no children, but complainant, E. C. Pendle-ton, his widow. The said widow and Samuel Prestridge obtained letters of administration, and acted as such until 1845, when Prestridge died.- At the August term, 1845, complainants were appointed administrators, &c. That Z. E. Pendleton and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fishes
*136The appellees as administrator and administratrix of the estate of Z. Pendleton, deceased, filed this bill in the vice-chancery court holden at Monticello, against the heirs at law of Joseph Pouns, deceased, and one Henry Sones, to enforce the vendor’s lien for the unpaid purchase-money, due on account of a tract of land, sold by the said Pendleton in his lifetime to Joseph Pouns.
The defendants below, who had been served with process, and otherwise legally notified of the pendency of the suit, appeared and filed a demurrer to the bill, which was by the court overruled; the defendants…
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