McMahon v. Yazoo Delta Lumber Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Sunflower county. Hon. Perot Bell, Chancellor. The Yazoo Delta Lumber Company, appellee, was complainant in the court below; McMahon, appellant, was defendant there. The court below rendered a-final decree in complainant’s favor, from which the first appeal in the case was prose-muted to the supreme court, without waiting for the accounting.
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From the chancery court of Sunflower county. Hon. Perot Bell, Chancellor. The Yazoo Delta Lumber Company, appellee, was complainant in the court below; McMahon, appellant, was defendant there. The court below rendered a-final decree in complainant’s favor, from which the first appeal in the case was prose-muted to the supreme court, without waiting for the accounting. This appeal is covered by the first opinion of the court, post page 462. The object of the suit was to remove clouds from the title to land, to obtain possession of the land and for the recovery of rents. The defendant claimed a…
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION ON EIRST APPEAL.
Whiteield, O. J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
Tbe opinion of tbis court in tbe case of Kennedy v. Saunders, 90 Miss., 524, s. c., 43 South., 913, is decisive of tbe controversy before us in tbe case at bar. We refer to tbe reasoning in that opinion as conclusive of all tbe legal questions presented by tbis case.
Tbe only question calling for any serious consideration in tbis cause is whether such adverse possession of lot No. 4 is shown as meets-tbe requirements of tbe ten-year statute. Tbe only two witnesses introduced on tbis subject who have any personal…
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