Keel v. Jones
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Harrison county. Hon. Thahdeus A. Wool, Chancellor. Keel and -two others, appellants, were, with others, complainánts in the court below; Jones and others, appellees, were defendants there. From a decree sustaining a demurrer to the bill appellants appealed to the supreme court.
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From the chancery court of Harrison county. Hon. Thahdeus A. Wool, Chancellor. Keel and -two others, appellants, were, with others, complainánts in the court below; Jones and others, appellees, were defendants there. From a decree sustaining a demurrer to the bill appellants appealed to the supreme court. The suit was begun in 1904, by Keel and fohr others, being the five children of William S. Keel, deceased, against their mother, Maria A. Keel and against appellees Jones and the Gulf Coast Lumber Company. The complainants sought the cancellation of certain deeds to lands formerly belonging…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
This bill was filed by the five children of W. S. Keel, who, together with their mother, were the heirs at law of the deceased, *249and these children make as defendants their mother, Maria A. Keel, Joseph T. Jones, and the Gulf Coast Lumber Company; the last two being remote purchasers of land sold pursuant to an order of the chancery court for parteition. The bill was filed for the purpose of cancelling the deeds to the property subsequent to the sale as the five-sixths interest claimed by complainants, and for partition of the property. The bill makes an exhibit of all the proceedings in the…
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