Bacon v. Gray
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the northern district vice-chancery court at Carrollton ; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The bill is barred by the statute of limitations. The deed of trust vested a joint estate in the husband, H. L. Gray, and his son, J. L. Gray.
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On appeal from the northern district vice-chancery court at Carrollton ; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The bill is barred by the statute of limitations. The deed of trust vested a joint estate in the husband, H. L. Gray, and his son, J. L. Gray. In the declaration of the trust as to the real estate conveyed by the deed, the grantor uses the following language : “ For the said Mary Gray, her child, and such other children as she may have, for their sole use and benefit; ” but in a subsequent part of the same…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shahkey
Gray filed his bill in chancery to recover a certain slave under the folowing circumstances. Joel Dyer, the grandfather of the appellee, in 1823, in Tennessee, conveyed to one Coleman a tract of land and certain slaves, in trust for his daughter Mary H. Gray, and her child, the appellee, and such other children as she might have, to their use and benefit. She died in 1836, leaving but the one child, and her husband and the trustee are also dead. Thé slave in dispute was sold by the husband in this State, about the year 1825, and the bill was filed in 1846, within three years after the…
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