Riley v. Norfleet

The appellant, Mrs. Ada Norfleet Riley, on behalf of herself, and as guardian and next friend of her two minor children, James L. Riley, Jr., and Octavia Riley, filed a bill of complaint in the chancery court of Tunica county, against her brother, J. P. Norfleet, seeking to enforce specific performance of a conditional contract for- the sale of her interest, and that of her two minor children, if any they had, in six separate tracts of Mississippi Delta lands therein particularly described. A demurrer was interposed to the bill, and thereupon an amended bill was filed naming J. P. Norfleet,…