Exum v. Canty
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Chancery Court at Carrollton. Hon. James F. Trotter, vice-chancellor. On the 12th of April, 1853, Benjamin Exum and others, who were the children of the deceased brothers and sisters of John Williams, deceased, and his heirs-at-law, filed their bill in the court below against Zachariah Canty, trustee, &c., James W. Canty, and Camilla F. Canty, his wife, and James Gr. Kelly.
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Appeal from the District Chancery Court at Carrollton. Hon. James F. Trotter, vice-chancellor. On the 12th of April, 1853, Benjamin Exum and others, who were the children of the deceased brothers and sisters of John Williams, deceased, and his heirs-at-law, filed their bill in the court below against Zachariah Canty, trustee, &c., James W. Canty, and Camilla F. Canty, his wife, and James Gr. Kelly. The bill, after setting out the relationship of the complainants to John Williams, in substance charged, that in the year 185 , the said John Williams died, leaving a large real and personal…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
The appellants, as heirs-at-law of John Williams, deceased, filed this bill in the District Chancery Court, at Carrollton, against the appellees, for the purpose of setting aside and annulling a deed of conveyance made by Williams, for thé benefit of the appellees.
The substance of the bill is, that the deceased died possessed and seised of a large personal and real estate, in this State, and in the State of South Carolina; and that, some months before his death, he was prevailed upon by the artifice and undue influence of the appellees, to execute an instrument of writing, on the 18th July,…
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