Cummins v. Dumas

The appellee, Dr. A. W. Dumas, complainant in the court below, filed his bill in the chancery court of Adams county against appellants, Mrs. Carrie Cummins and her husband, Ed Cummins, defendants in the court below, alleging that he was owner of a lot, or parcel of land, in Natchez, Miss.; that the defendants, the Cummins, were adjacent land owners; that between the lots of complainant and defendants there was a right of way, or private alley, thirty-five feet wide, extending from Oak street one hundred sixty feet in a southerly direction, and in the rear of the property owned by the…