Khoury v. Saik

L. A. Smith, Sr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was tried in the Chancery Court of Jones County, wherein appellee as complainant sought cancellation of a certain deed executed by him to Mrs. Latife N. Haik, his mother-in-law, conveying to her certain lands in Jones County. The wife of appellee was dead before and at the time of the litigation, but Vilma Saik, their minor child, was a non-resident of the State of Mississippi and resided in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, with her aunt, one of the defendants in this cause. The mother-in-law, by will, devised this land to…