Cooley v. Cooley

PATTERSON, Presiding Justice:

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Jasper County which sustained special pleas and defenses of the statute of limitations interposed by the defendants below and dismissed the case against them. The court held the appellants had not complied with Mississippi Code Annotated sections 15-1-7 and 15-1-9 (1972) which require suit for the recovery of land to be commenced within ten years after the cause of action accrues.

The issue before the Court is whether a landowner’s suit to cancel mineral deeds on the ground of fraud is…