Beaman v. Beaman
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the chancery court of Attala county. Hon. James E. McCool, Chancellor. Edward Beaman and others, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Charles Beaman and others, appellants, were defendant there. Erom a decree overruling defendants’ demurrer to the bill of complaint the defendants appealed to the supreme court.
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Erom the chancery court of Attala county. Hon. James E. McCool, Chancellor. Edward Beaman and others, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Charles Beaman and others, appellants, were defendant there. Erom a decree overruling defendants’ demurrer to the bill of complaint the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The suit was for the cancellation of deeds under which some of the defendants claimed the land, and for a partition thereof between the parties in interest, with an accounting for rents, etc. The land formerly belonged to one Alexander Beaman, who, in his lifetime,…
1Opinion of the CourtCaljioon, J.
Without especial consideration in detail of the various grounds of demurrer so ably argued, it is plain that appellant’s case is without life if Mrs. Joanna Beaman, wife of Charles Beaman, could not buy, either for cash or on credit, at the' *766sale by the trustee in the trust deed of Alexander Beaman, the ancestor. Charles Beaman was a cotenant, and, with his wife, was in actual possession of the land when his father died and when the trustee sold and she bought. If he had bought, the purchase, subject to what he paid in satisfaction of his father’s debt, would plainly have inured to the…
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