Baldridge v. Stribling
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Lowndes county. Hon. J. F. McCool, Chancellor. Suit by Elizabeth Baldridge against S. B. Stribling and wife. From a decree for defendants, complainant appeals. Mrs. Baldridge filed a hill in the chancery court against S. R. Stribling and wife for an accounting.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Lowndes county. Hon. J. F. McCool, Chancellor. Suit by Elizabeth Baldridge against S. B. Stribling and wife. From a decree for defendants, complainant appeals. Mrs. Baldridge filed a hill in the chancery court against S. R. Stribling and wife for an accounting. The hill alleged that one P. Cates, father of complainant and of Mrs. Stribling, died, leaving certain property which by will' he had devised equally to his two daughters, Mrs; Baldridge and Mrs. Stribling; that for some time prior to his death he had lived with Mrs. Stribling, and that she and her…
1Opinion of the CourtMcLean, J.
One of the defendants in the court below, Mrs. Jane Stribling, testified that, a short time before her father’s death, he came to her with a roll of money in his hand and said that that was all the money he had left; that he wanted to give it to her, with the understanding that she was to take care of him during his life, and after his death to give him a decent burial; that he actually delivered to her the money, three thousand, six hundred dollars. The appellant, complainant in the court below, objected to this evidence on the ground that the witness was establishing her own claim against…
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