Gordon v. Sizer
Mississippi Supreme Court
Ekbob to the Circuit- Court of Hinds county. Hon. John Watts, judge. This was an action of ejectment by Sizer, the defendant in error, against Gordon and wife, the plaintiffs in error, to recover possession of an alley four feet wide in lot No. 1, in square No. 8 south, in tbe city of Jackson.
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Ekbob to the Circuit- Court of Hinds county. Hon. John Watts, judge. This was an action of ejectment by Sizer, the defendant in error, against Gordon and wife, the plaintiffs in error, to recover possession of an alley four feet wide in lot No. 1, in square No. 8 south, in tbe city of Jackson. Pleas, not guilty, and Statute of Limitations. ' On tbe trial, plaintiff offered in evidence a deed made by C. W. Pierce to him, dated 15tb February, 1853. This deed con-' veyed to tbe plaintiff “tbe northern portion of lot No. 1, in square No. 3 south, being twenty feet lying and fronting on State…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
This was an action of ejectment, brought by the defendant in error to recover a parcel of ground in the city of Jackson.
On the trial in the court below, the plaintiff, in support of his title, offered and read in evidence a deed to him from one Pierce for the premises, dated 15th February, 1853, conveying "the northern portion of lot No. 1, in square No. 3 south, being twenty feet lying and fronting on State street, and also one hundred feet, except about four feet at the west end of said lot, which I may have previously conveyed, and if not, then I hereby convey the one hundred feet as…
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