Martin v. Williams
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe Probate Court of Chickasaw county. Hon. B. F. Owen, judge. Appellees filed tbeir petition in tbe Probate Court of Chickasaw county against appellant and others, asking for a division of certain lands devised to them by the will of - Samuel Williams.
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Appeal from tbe Probate Court of Chickasaw county. Hon. B. F. Owen, judge. Appellees filed tbeir petition in tbe Probate Court of Chickasaw county against appellant and others, asking for a division of certain lands devised to them by the will of - Samuel Williams. Appellant pleaded in bar of the petition, that on the petition of the executor of Samuel Williams the lands had been decreed to be sold in November, 1858, by the Probate Court; that appellees were made parties, and gave their solemn consent thereto ; that the decree under which the land had been sold was destroyed by the Federal…
1Opinion of the CourtShackelford, C. J.
This was a proceeding in the Probate Court of Chickasaw county.
The appellees, at the September Term thereof, 1866, filed their petition, setting forth that their deceased father, Samuel Williams, made his last will and testament on the 18th day of September, A.D. 1856, therein bequeathing and devising to said petitioners, and Samuel C. Williams, Benjamin T. Williams Milly Speed (wife of Benjamin Speed), their sister, Martha. Irby, now Martha Barker, Richard Williams, and Nancy J. Martin, now deceased, all his children, eight in number, and Esther Williams, his wife- — “jointly and in equal…
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