Cromwell v. Craft
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tfie chancery court of Marshall county. Stearns, Chancellor. The opinion of the court distinctly presents this case, as viewed by the court, and relieves from the necessity of any further statement of the facts shown by the voluminous record. Only so much of the “ full and exhaustive” arguments of counsel, as relates to the view taken by the court, is inserted. We will now notice the point mainly relied on by the counsel for the appellees.
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Appeal from tfie chancery court of Marshall county. Stearns, Chancellor. The opinion of the court distinctly presents this case, as viewed by the court, and relieves from the necessity of any further statement of the facts shown by the voluminous record. Only so much of the “ full and exhaustive” arguments of counsel, as relates to the view taken by the court, is inserted. We will now notice the point mainly relied on by the counsel for the appellees. It is, that the decree rendered in the case of Addison Craft, administrator'of John Gregg et al. v. J. B. Ellis et al., in the chancery court…
1Opinion of the Court
Tarbell, J.:
In 1851, John Grigg, since deceased, sold to W. W. *56Harris a certain described tract of land in Tippah county, in this state, for the sum of $3,200, of which sum he paid $800 cash, and gave his notes for the balance, Grigg giving to Harris the usual contract, or bond, for title upon full payment of the purchase money. Harris sub-sold a portion of said land to one Thos. C. Gober, giving his bond for title when the notes given for part of the purchase money should be paid. In 1852, Harris transferred his contract to James B. Ellis, as purchaser thereof, and the latter also bought in…
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