Wallace v. Bobbitt
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Leake county. I-IoN. AdaM M. Byrd, Chancellor. Bobbitt and others, appellees, were complainants in the court, below; Wallace and others, appellants, were defendants there. The facts upon which the case was disposed of by the supreme-court are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCalhooN, J.
In this proceeding in chancery, by bill to remove clouds from-title, the defendant, in his answer, relies on adverse possession for more than ten years. Complainant excepted to the sufficiency of this answer, because not full enough in its statements to disclose the defense attempted to be set up. This matter of equity pleading was submitted to a master, who reported that-the exception ought to be sustained, and the chancellor did sustain it as against all the complainants except one, and both sides were allowed an appeal, “for the purpose of settling the. principles of this case, ’ ’ and the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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