Hicks v. Blakeman
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Yazoo county. On October 2, 1877, complainant was the owner of the land in controversy by descent from her grandfather, the deraignment of title set up in the bill being agreed to be correct.
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From the chancery court of Yazoo county. On October 2, 1877, complainant was the owner of the land in controversy by descent from her grandfather, the deraignment of title set up in the bill being agreed to be correct. On that day her guardian, W. S. Epperson, petitioned the chancery court for leave to sell the land, the grounds of the petition being that the land was unproductive, and that her remaining estate was insufficient for the payment of her debts and for her support. These allegations of the petition were attacked in this case as untrue. Complainant’s mother and her uncles, James…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
The sale of the lands in controversy by the former guardian of appellant, on April 26, 1879, was not only never reported to nor confirmed by the court under whose decree 'the same was made, but there is a total failure of evidence showing any attempt at compliance with the terms of sale prescribed by the decree. There is a recital, vague and inferential, in the guardian’s deed to the purchasers at that sale, of his receipt of half the price bid from the purchasers, in cash; but this was before any report or confirmation of sale (there never having been, in fact, at any time, any report or…
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