Holloway v. Moore
Mississippi Supreme Court
This was a bill filed in the district chancery court, on the 20th day of March, 1841, by Thomas P. Moore, against James Earp and William J. Holloway.
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This was a bill filed in the district chancery court, on the 20th day of March, 1841, by Thomas P. Moore, against James Earp and William J. Holloway. The bill states that in March, 1838, John Reynolds purchased of Lorenzo D. Henderson and others, commissioners of the town of Holly Springs, in Marshall county, Mississippi, lot No. 203, as represented on the plat of said town, and took their bond for a title thereto; that he paid most of the purchase money, and died before he obtained a deed to the lot; that after his death his brother, Francis Reynolds, got possession of the title bond, and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sharkey
Moore filed his bill in the vice chancellor’s court, to rescind a contract, by which he had purchased a lot in Holly Springs, of one James Earp, and for an injunction to stay the collection of the purchase money, judgment at law having been obtained *599against him by Holloway, as indorser of the note. Earp failed to answer, and a pro confesso was taken ; but Holloway answered, denying the allegations of the bill. The cause was set for hearing, on the pleadings and depositions, and a decree was rendered for the complainant, from which Holloway has brought the case up by writ of error.
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