Sweatman v. Dean
Mississippi Supreme Court
Fbom the chaueery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. James L. McCaskill, Chancellor. Dean and others, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Sweatman and others, appellants, were defendants there. Prom a decree in favor of complainants the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Fbom the chaueery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. James L. McCaskill, Chancellor. Dean and others, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Sweatman and others, appellants, were defendants there. Prom a decree in favor of complainants the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The decree appealed from is predicated of the defective execution of process in the former suit — i. e., that one of the summonses, to wit, the one to W. W. Dean and Jasper Dean, duly issued on March 2, 1894, was made returnable the second Monday, when it…
1Opinion of the CourtCox, J.
The original bill in. this cause avers that complainants and certain defendants therein named — to wit, B. E. Dean, J. A. Dean, Mrs. Mary Harper, B. E. Harper, Mrs. Kizzie Johnson, Carrie Dean, and Ida Dean — are tenants in common, with right of possession, of the entire interest in certain lands described in the bill, of which partition is sought; that D. W. Sweatman, Elizabeth E. West, Oliver Larkin, and G-eorgeanna Turner claim some interest in said lands under and through their co-defendants, and that they are joined as parties defendant to the bill so that they may propound and indicate…
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