Hill v. McLaurin
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the southern district chancery court at Monticello ; Hon. A. B. Dawson, vice-chancellor. The plaintiffs in error, who were complainants in the court below, filed their bill alleging that they were the grandchildren of Duncan McLaurin, deceased; that they were six in all, the children of Jefferson and Catharine Love, of Madison county, and that the said Catharine’s maiden name was Catharine McLaurin, the daughter of said Duncan McLaurin, deceased; that three of…
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On appeal from the southern district chancery court at Monticello ; Hon. A. B. Dawson, vice-chancellor. The plaintiffs in error, who were complainants in the court below, filed their bill alleging that they were the grandchildren of Duncan McLaurin, deceased; that they were six in all, the children of Jefferson and Catharine Love, of Madison county, and that the said Catharine’s maiden name was Catharine McLaurin, the daughter of said Duncan McLaurin, deceased; that three of complainants were of age or married, but the other three, infants of tender years, prosecuting their rights in said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fisher
This is an appeal from a decree of the vice-chancery court, holden at Monticello, sustaining a demurrer to the complainants’ bill.
The bill alleges in substance, that the complainants are heirs at law and distributees of the personal estate of Duncan Mc-Laurin, who died intestate, at his residence in the county of Simpson, in the spring of 1848. That Daniel McLaurin, one of the defendants, qualified as administrator on the estate of the intestate; that the said Duncan McLaurin was possessed, in the year 1847, of a large estate, consisting of about two thousand acres of land, seventy slaves,…
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