Gex v. Dill
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Hancock county. Hon. Stone Deavours, Chancellor. Mrs. Gex, the appellant, was complainant in the court below; Dill and others, appellees, were defendants there. From a decree in defendants’ favor, the complainant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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From the chancery court of Hancock county. Hon. Stone Deavours, Chancellor. Mrs. Gex, the appellant, was complainant in the court below; Dill and others, appellees, were defendants there. From a decree in defendants’ favor, the complainant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. So far as concerns description, the case is wholly within the decisions of Baines v. Baird, 84 Miss., 807; Kyle v. Rhodes, 7l Miss., 491. The instrument is nothing more nor less than a mere license, an executory license; an authority to the grantees and their assigns to enter…
1Opinion of the CourtGalhooh, J.
The main purpose of the bill of Mrs. Gex, the appellant, is to remove as a cloud on her title a lease from Roderick Seal to the Enterprise Turpentine & Rosin Company. She claims the fee of the land by successive conveyances under Seal’s title, and the appellees claim turpentine rights under assignment of the lease of Seal to that turpentine and rosin company. She de-raigns title to the lands from the government into Seal; avers the death of Seal, a chancery decree authorizing a sale of the lands of Seal, a sale and conveyance under it to J. I. Ford, a conveyance by-Eord to Horace Marble and…
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