Howard v. McMurchy

The appellants sued the appellees for a partition of land and the cancellation of a mortgage, by the foreclosure of which the interest of the appellants in the land was divested. This mortgage was signed by the appellants, Mattie Parker Howard, and by Marcilla Thomas, formerly Marcilla Parker, who died thereafter, leaving the other appellants as her sole heirs at law. The case was tried on bill, answer, and proof, and the bill of complaint was dismissed.

At a time when Mattie Parker Howard and Marcilla Thomas were minors, decrees in vacation were rendered in Bolivar’county, Mississippi,…