Bruce v. Jones
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Harrison county. HoN. W. M. DeNNy, Jr., Chancellor. Suit hy J. L. Jones against A. C. Bruce and. others. From a judgment for complainant, defendants appeal. • The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court, The hill is defective' because it fails to aver that Eugenia Isaacs was living on the land, or had erected buildings or machinery of a useful hind upon the land, or that she had same, or any part of it in cultivation.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Harrison county. HoN. W. M. DeNNy, Jr., Chancellor. Suit hy J. L. Jones against A. C. Bruce and. others. From a judgment for complainant, defendants appeal. • The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court, The hill is defective' because it fails to aver that Eugenia Isaacs was living on the land, or had erected buildings or machinery of a useful hind upon the land, or that she had same, or any part of it in cultivation. Indeed, it is nowhere averred that the land was or is swamp and overflowed land, and as the Acts of 1857 was dealing entirely with…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the chancery court confirming title to certain lands in Harrison county under claim of title through the swamp land commissioner, created by'chapter 18, Laws, 1857, p. 69. The complainant Jones claims through a title under this act and through a táx sale made in 1897, whereat said lands were sold for taxes, and thereafter a suit con-firiñing the .tax title was filed and a decree obtained in the year 1905. In the year 1903 the state issued a patent to the said lands to Mattie Barksdale, and the appellants claim through this chain of title. The chain of title…
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