Tigner v. McGehee
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County. Hon. E. G. PaytoN, Chancellor. On the sixteenth day of June, 1853, William Tigner signed and acknowledged a deed purporting to grant and convey to his two sons, Clark H. and Williapi -N. Tigner, a large tract of land, known as “ Millbrook plantation,” in Wilkinson County, together with the slaves, stock, and other personal property thereon, “for and in consideration of the sum ■of $60,000, secured to be paid by a number of…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County. Hon. E. G. PaytoN, Chancellor. On the sixteenth day of June, 1853, William Tigner signed and acknowledged a deed purporting to grant and convey to his two sons, Clark H. and Williapi -N. Tigner, a large tract of land, known as “ Millbrook plantation,” in Wilkinson County, together with the slaves, stock, and other personal property thereon, “for and in consideration of the sum ■of $60,000, secured to be paid by a number of notes, payable in five annual instalments, to be paid by the said Clark H. Tigner and William N. Tigner, at or before the…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, C. J.
We are satisfied by the evidence that the conveyance made by William Tigner, of the land constituting “ Millbrook ” and the other property embraced in it, was made as part of the testamentary scheme of the grantor, and, although by the conveyance the title of the property was vested in W. N. Tigner and C. H. Tigner, it was held bv them subject to the payment of the legacies created by the will of the grantor, whose plan was to make them the holders of the property and the payors out of it of the legacies. The circumstances all combine to *192show that that was the nature of the transactions which…
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