Cook v. Lindsey
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the Chancery Court of Choctaw county. Hon. William L. Harris, chancellor. The case is one of equity cognizance, and no Statute of Limitations bars such equitable demands. Courts of equity, in the adoption of the rules of statutes, do so with just and equitable modifications.
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In error from the Chancery Court of Choctaw county. Hon. William L. Harris, chancellor. The case is one of equity cognizance, and no Statute of Limitations bars such equitable demands. Courts of equity, in the adoption of the rules of statutes, do so with just and equitable modifications. Here we have a great number of married women and infants making an attorney in fact, to receive their respective parts of an estate, the business being to be transacted in a neighborhood in which they are strangers, at a distance of six hundred miles, in another State. He being a near relative and…
1Opinion of the CourtFisher, J.
This was a bill filed by the complainants in the Chancery Court of Choctaw county, to recover a sum of money alleged to be due to them from the defendant. The court below sustained a demurrer to the bill, on the ground that the claim appeared, by the allegations of the complainants, to be barred by the Statute of Limitations.
The complainants assert a claim to the money as the children and grandchildren of one Mary Lindsey, who died about the year 1836.
It is alleged that Mary Lindsey was the sister of one Tucker, who died about the year 1885, in the State of South Carolina, leaving a large…
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