Peeler v. Hutson

L. A. Smith,-Sr.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Suit was filed in the Chancery Court of Leake County on December 14, 1945, by appellee against appellants for a partition of 985 acres of land in Leake County; cancellation of a trust deed thereon executed by appellant, Ernest Peeler, so far as it affected the interest of appellee ; and for an accounting of the rents and profits from the lands sought to be partitioned.

Appellee claimed to own an undivided one-twenty-seventh interest in the property as an heir at law of his deceased wife, Mrs. Katherine Sevier Hutson, who departed this life…