Barrier v. Young
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery, court of Neshoba county. BEon. James F McOool, Chancellor. Barrier, appellant, was complainant in the court below; Young, appellee, was defendant there. From a final decree in defendant’s favor tbe complainant appealed to the supreme court.
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From the chancery, court of Neshoba county. BEon. James F McOool, Chancellor. Barrier, appellant, was complainant in the court below; Young, appellee, was defendant there. From a final decree in defendant’s favor tbe complainant appealed to the supreme court. The father of the appellant died intestate in 1879, leaving a wife (who afterwards married one Nay) and three children, the appellant and two brothers, both of whom died in infancy, without issue, leaving appellant as their sole heir.- At the time of the death of the elder Barrier, appellant’s father, he was the owner of the land in…
1Opinion of the Court
Mayes, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
Tbe facts of this case show, beyond question, that tbe property involved belonged to B. J. Barrier, Sr., father of complainant, at tbe date of tbe father’s death, to wit, in tbe year 1879. When B. J. Barrier, Sr., died, as be left no will, tbe only interest which bis wife inherited was a dower interest; tbe law relative to dower then being in full force. When Albert Kelly Barrier and John Miller Barrier died,' they both being under age and without issue, all their interest in this property was vested by law. in tbe complainant. When complainant’s…
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