Bibby v. Broome
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Tallahatchie county. Hon. Joe May, Chancellor. Bill to quiet title by Bessie C. Bibby and others against C. H. Broome and others. From an order sustaining a demurrer to the bill, plaintiffs appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court · SmithSmith, C. J.
Appellants exhibited their bill in the court below, praying that appellees’ claim to certain land be canceled as a cloud upon their title thereto. A demurrer to the bill filed by appellees was sustained and the bill dismissed. The facts, as they appear from the bill, are that Mrs. S. O. Rhew died in 1880, seised and possessed of the land in controversy, leaving a will by which she devised it as follows:
“I give to Jas. P. Rhew (my adopted son) his natural life, my dwelling and all the land I now possess, except that herein donated or given to Miss Sarah Lee, and upon his death to his children,…
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- Henry v. HendersonMississippi Supreme Court · 1912
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