BEVIS CONSTR. CO., INC. v. Kittrell

This case comes to this Court on appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Perry County, Mississippi, in which the Chancellor cancelled a contract and a deed of trust executed by appellees, Fred M. Kittrell and Wife, Mary E. Kittrell, to appellant, Bevis Construction Company, on a certain house and one acre of land in Perry County. The Chancellor awarded appellees a judgment for $1,900 as damages for an alleged breach of contract to construct the house in question.

The dispute grew out of the following facts: On December 29, 1959, appellees, Fred M. and Mary E. Kittrell, entered into a…