Cowen v. Alsop
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Warren County. Hon. Edwin Hill, Chancellor. On December 29, 1866, Samuel Marly, one of the defendants below, and father of Annie Marly Cowen, wife of the appellant, Warren Cowen, made a contract with Warren Cowen, by which he executed his note for $18,000, payable five years after date to Mrs. Cowen.
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Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Warren County. Hon. Edwin Hill, Chancellor. On December 29, 1866, Samuel Marly, one of the defendants below, and father of Annie Marly Cowen, wife of the appellant, Warren Cowen, made a contract with Warren Cowen, by which he executed his note for $18,000, payable five years after date to Mrs. Cowen. In consideration of this, Cowen obligated himself to erect immediately, on a lot belonging to Marly in Vicksburg, a brick storehouse, to be worth at least $6,000 or $7,000. On the same day, and in pursuance of this contract, Marly conveyed this property to his…
1Opinion of the CourtPeyton, C. J.
It appears that in March, 1866, Annie Marly, daughter of Samuel Marly, intermarried with Warren Cowen, and that on the 29th day of December, 1866, the said Samuel Marly settled upon his daughter, by deed of conveyance, certain real estate therein described, situated in the city of Yicksburg, as her portion of his estate.
That on the first of September, 1866, the said Samuel Marly was indebted to Thomas B. Alsop, in the sum of eight hundred dollars, upon which a judgment was obtained in the circuit court of Warren county, by said Alsop, against the said Samuel Marly, on the 12th day of June,…
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