Mizell v. Black

BOWLING, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal is from the Chancery Court of George County. Appellant, Lauree Mi-zell, filed her bill of complaint alleging that she was the owner by adverse possession of a 78-acre tract of land rather than appel-lees, John E. Black and others, who claimed under a quitclaim deed executed to them in June, 1971. The chancellor found that appellant did not have title to the land by adverse possession.

Appellant propounds three assignments of error, namely:

1. The court erred in ruling that the deadman’s statute [Mississippi Code Annotated section 13-1-7 (1972)] made…