Shipp v. McKee
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe chancery court of, first district, Coaboma county. Hon. A. McC. Kimbrough, Chancellor. Miss Shipp, appellant, was complainant in the court below; Mrs. McKee and others, appellees, were defendants there. From a decree adverse to the complainant she appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The main question in this case is whether there was a life estate of John W. Shipp in this property.
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From tbe chancery court of, first district, Coaboma county. Hon. A. McC. Kimbrough, Chancellor. Miss Shipp, appellant, was complainant in the court below; Mrs. McKee and others, appellees, were defendants there. From a decree adverse to the complainant she appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The main question in this case is whether there was a life estate of John W. Shipp in this property. On the existence of such life estate depends the right of the appellant to dis-affirm her deed given while a minor, and to institute this suit for 'partition at…
1Opinion of the Court 1
Terral, I.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
By the last will and testament of Cynthia R. Shipp, she devised the lands in controversy to John W. Shipp for his life, and the remainder in fee to Mary B. Shipp and others; one-sixth interest therein being devised to Mary B. Shipp. John W. Shipp, the life tenant, deceased on the 18th day of September, 1899; and soon thereafter Mary B. Shipp brought her bill for partition against Mrs. Margaret B. McKee, her co-tenant, and McGrath, who claimed a lien upon said land under *746a trust deed thereon made by Mrs. McKee. In 1885, while Mary B. Shipp was a…
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