Bennett v. Bennett
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of, first district, Coahoma county. Hon. Carey C. Moody, Chancellor. Henry Bennett, Jr., and others, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Calvin B. Bennett, appellant, was defendant there. From a decree in favor of the complainants the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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From the chancery court of, first district, Coahoma county. Hon. Carey C. Moody, Chancellor. Henry Bennett, Jr., and others, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Calvin B. Bennett, appellant, was defendant there. From a decree in favor of the complainants the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The proof is clear and positive that appellant paid $43.05 of the purchase money, while his brother, Henry Bennett, only paid $15 thereof, assigning as his reason that $15 would buy all the interest he wanted in the land. He knew after…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
Henry Bennett, Jr., and his brother and sister, the appellees, who are minors, by their next friend, set up in their bill below that they are the only children and heirs of Henry Bennett, deceased, who died March 3, 1900; that he died the owner of an undivided one-half interest in a tract of 160 acres of land described, the other half belonging to C. B. Bennett, the appellant ; that their deceased father and the appellant got title from *498the state in 1892, and that those two were in possession when Henry died as tenants in common, bnt that now C. B. Bennett is in possession of the whole tract,…
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