Dickerson v. Leslie
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Bolivar county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Mrs. Dickerson and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below;. Mrs. Leslie, appellee, was defendant there. From a decree in defendant’s favor on tlie controverted points the complainants appealed to the supreme court. George W. Leslie, deceased, was the owner in his lifetime of a plantation in Bolivar county, Miss., comprising nine hundred acres of land.
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From the chancery court of Bolivar county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Mrs. Dickerson and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below;. Mrs. Leslie, appellee, was defendant there. From a decree in defendant’s favor on tlie controverted points the complainants appealed to the supreme court. George W. Leslie, deceased, was the owner in his lifetime of a plantation in Bolivar county, Miss., comprising nine hundred acres of land. On the tract there was a dwelling house, barns, etc., such as are usually found on plantations. Leslie died owing no debts, and left surviving him three…
1Opinion of the Court
Mates, J.,
delivered-the opinion of the court.
This case is controlled by the case of Moody v. Moody, 86 Miss. 323, 38 South. 322. The only distinction between this case and that on its facts is that in the case we have under consideration the exemption claimed is of farm lands, whereas in the Moody case the exemption, was of property lying within the limits of a city. This variation of fact does not in any sense alter the principle announced in the Moody case.
So apt is the language of the learned judge delivering the opinion in the Moody case, that we can do no better than quote it. In the…
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