Frederic v. Mayers
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe chancery court of Jackson county. Hon. Thaddeus A. Wood, Chancellor. Mrs. Frederic and others, the appellants, were complainants in the court below; Mayers, appellee, was defendant there. The bill sought the cancellation of defendant’s claim to a lot in the town of Scranton as a cloud upon complainants’ title thereto. From a decree wholly in defendant’s favor the complainants appealed to the supreme court.
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From tbe chancery court of Jackson county. Hon. Thaddeus A. Wood, Chancellor. Mrs. Frederic and others, the appellants, were complainants in the court below; Mayers, appellee, was defendant there. The bill sought the cancellation of defendant’s claim to a lot in the town of Scranton as a cloud upon complainants’ title thereto. From a decree wholly in defendant’s favor the complainants appealed to the supreme court. In 1874 one Melanethon Smith established a newspaper in the town of Scranton, Miss., having secured donations from the citizens of that place, and having obtained the promise of W.…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
By the correspondence in 1874, exhibits “A” and “B” to the bill, Smith got more than a mere license, revocable by Frederic. He got the right to exclusive use of the property, terminable only by his death or ceasing to publish the Star. The successive holders claimed under him. So does Mayers, and he held for twenty years under that right, as was well known to, fully recognized by, and acquiesced in by, Frederic, who, besides, saw Mayers, under that claim, spend a large sum in enlarging the building. Frederic, while alive, fully and accurately defined Mayers’ legal rights, when'he repeatdly…
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