Gordon v. Manning
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Leake county. Campbell, J. The case is fully stated in the opinion of the court. Appellants assign the following errors: 1st. The court below erred in decreeing relief against appellant, Mrs. Gordon. ITer plea of coverture was a valid defense to said action, and was fully sustained by the proofs. 2d. The note of Mrs. Gordon, made during coverture, was void, and hence could not become the basis of a decree against her.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Leake county. Campbell, J. The case is fully stated in the opinion of the court. Appellants assign the following errors: 1st. The court below erred in decreeing relief against appellant, Mrs. Gordon. ITer plea of coverture was a valid defense to said action, and was fully sustained by the proofs. 2d. The note of Mrs. Gordon, made during coverture, was void, and hence could not become the basis of a decree against her. If the note was valid at all, and was only so, as to -her co-purchaser of the land, Bilbo, as to whom the suit was dismissed. 3d. The proof, as…
1Opinion of the Court
SlMRALL, J.:
The record shows that the complainant, Anderson B. Manning, sold and conveyed to Ellen E. Gordon and A. H. Bilbo, a tract of land for $1,600. That Mrs. Gordon, in part payment for the land, gave her note to the complainant for $400, upon which a balance is still due. Subsequently Bilbo sold and conveyed his moiety of the land to George W. Thompson, who conveyed the same to Williams. The deed from Bilbo to Thompson is dated June 13, 1863. The date of the deed from Thompson to Williams is October 1,1864.
Williams defends against the vendor’s lien, arising upon the sale by Manning to…
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