Jordan v. Bobbitt
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe circuit court of Leake county. Hon. James B. Byrd, Judge. This was an action of ejectment brought by the appellees, Bobbitt and others, and against the appellant, Jordan, to recover the land in controversy. The facts of the case are fully set out in the several opinions delivered by the members of thg court.
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From tbe circuit court of Leake county. Hon. James B. Byrd, Judge. This was an action of ejectment brought by the appellees, Bobbitt and others, and against the appellant, Jordan, to recover the land in controversy. The facts of the case are fully set out in the several opinions delivered by the members of thg court. This case is one in which there is a great mass of record evidence, and the court should have continued the case for the term in order to have given time to have introduced the testimony regularly and to have heard and understood the same, instead of rushing it through on…
1Dissent
Whitfield, C. J.,
delivered the following’ dissenting opinion.
A. I. Bobbitt died October 3, 1861. He owned the eighty acres in controversy at the time of his death. He left a widow, Mary E. Bobbitt, who, about three years later, married II. A. Middleton. He also left five children, these four plaintiffs, appellees here, and Alfonso Bobbitt, who died young without heirs. About twelve days after the death of A. I. Bobbitt, his widow was appointed administratrix, and John A. Hanson was appointed administrator of his estate. Hanson served continuously until March, 1873. In 1864, Bobbitt’s widow,…
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