Rabb v. Griffin
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the southern district chancery court; Hon. ■ James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. The facts of the case are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court.
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In error from the southern district chancery court; Hon. ■ James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. The facts of the case are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court. One twelfth part of the slaves and one eleventh part of the land (subject to dower) descended to Eliza on the death of her father; and complainant, then a tenant by courtesy, became entitled to an estate for his own life in the eleventh part of the land; and on the death of his wife Eliza, her thirteenth part of the slaves vested in complainant by the “ married woman’s ” law of 1846, the child of said Eliza being then dead.…
1Opinion of the Court
Sir. Justice Handy
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in error filed his bill in the southern district chancery court for a partition of the personal and real estate of Isham Griffin, deceased, alleging that the intestate died in July, 1849, seized and 'possessed of real and personal estate in Adams county, leaving a daughter, Eliza, surviving him, who had intermarried with the complainant in 1834, and eleven other children and a widow. Complainant and his wife Eliza had two children, who are both dead, and she afterwards died, in the year 1850. No administration has been taken…
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