Legal Opinion

Estate of Jones v. Culley

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided November 13, 1961No. 41988PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMcGehee, C. J.

The appellant George Jones, a non compos mentis, suing by his guardian Henry Towns, and Mary Jones Coleman, a non compos mentis and sister of the said George Jones, by her guardian Sandy R. King, were on the 28th day of September 1959 engaged in litigation with the appellees Lewis L. Culley and others in an attack on the validity of a sale by deed of 26.3 acres of land situated in the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, on the ground that the wards were mentally incompetent to execute a valid conveyance and that the land was sold for an inadequate consideration.

On the 28th…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Union Chevrolet Co. v. ArringtonMississippi Supreme Court · 1932
  2. Road Material & Equipment Co. v. McGowanMississippi Supreme Court · 1956
  3. Newsom v. Fed. Land Bk. of N.O.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1939
  4. In Re Heard's GuardianshipMississippi Supreme Court · 1935

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Hall v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1989
  2. Mississippi State Bar Ass'n v. MoyoMississippi Supreme Court · 1988
  3. Barrett v. BallardMississippi Supreme Court · 1985
  4. Edwards v. RobertsCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2000
  5. Joyce v. BrownMississippi Supreme Court · 1974

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