Means v. Haley
Mississippi Supreme Court
Ebom: the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. Cabby 0. Moody, Chancellor. Mrs. Haley, the appellee, was complainant, and Means and others, the appellants, defendants in the court below.
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Ebom: the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. Cabby 0. Moody, Chancellor. Mrs. Haley, the appellee, was complainant, and Means and others, the appellants, defendants in the court below. Erom a decree in complainant’s favor, the defendant appealed to the supreme court. [The case was heretofore in the supreme court, and is reported — Means v. Haley, 84 Miss., 550.] Mrs. Haley filed the hill in this case against appellants and all other persons to confirm her tax title to the S. W. i, section 18, T. 18, K. 2, W., in Leflore county. The bill sets out a complete chain of title from the United…
1Opinion of the Court
Tbuly, I.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
On the former appeal of this case (36 South. Rep., 257) we held that the bill of complaint set out a good and valid title in the complainant, M. E. Haley.
The main legal propositions contended for by appellants were pressed upon this court in the cases of Paxton v. Valley Land Company, 67 Miss., 96 (6 South. Rep., 628); Id., 68 Miss., 739 (10 South, Rep., 77); Shotwell v. R. Co., 69 Miss., 541 (11 South. Rep., 455). The act of 1888 (p. 40, ch. 23) was considered in those eases, and its constitutionality, which was at least questioned, there upheld.…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Gibbs v. GreenMississippi Supreme Court · 1877
- Shotwell v. Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1891
- Paxton v. Valley Land Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1891
- Paxton v. Valley Land Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1889
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