Adams v. Hudson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe chancery court of Yazoo county. HoN. O. B. Tayloe, Chancellor. Petition by Odessa Adams, a minor, by her next friend,, against Inez Hudson and others. Prom a decree dismissing her petition, plaintiff appeals. Tbe facts are fully stated in tbe opinion of tbe court. Counsel for appellant in bis-brief admits, that if tbe will established- a trust in tbe executor that tbe appellant lias no cause of action.
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Appeal from tbe chancery court of Yazoo county. HoN. O. B. Tayloe, Chancellor. Petition by Odessa Adams, a minor, by her next friend,, against Inez Hudson and others. Prom a decree dismissing her petition, plaintiff appeals. Tbe facts are fully stated in tbe opinion of tbe court. Counsel for appellant in bis-brief admits, that if tbe will established- a trust in tbe executor that tbe appellant lias no cause of action. We think that the will does this, and gives the management and control of the plantation to the executor, until the youngest child becomes twenty-one years of age the trust…
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
Appellant, Odessa Adams, a minor, by next friend, exhibited her bill in the chancery court of Yazoo county against appellees, who are devisees under the last will *616and testament of one Elias Kincaide, deceased, to recover an' undivided interest in the rents and profits of certain real estate in which the. complainant now claims a vested interest. The testator left a portion of his plantation to his sons and the children of a deceased daughter, hut the interest of these latter are not involved in the present litigation. The testator had a daughter living at the time the will was executed and at…
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