Parkinson v. Mills

Mrs. Emma P. Mills, guardian of William E. Parkinson, non compos mentis, filed this bill in the chancery court of Madison county, Mississippi, against Mrs. Eleanor Wilson Seay Parkinson, praying for an annulment of a marriage existing between William E. Parkinson and the appellant. Appellant appeared in that court and moved to dismiss for want of jurisdiction in that county, and averred that the marriage status existed and that she lived in Harrison county. She prayed either that the bill be dismissed, or that the cause be transferred to Harrison county. Upon the hearing of the motion the…