Ellis v. Sutton
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from chancery court of Lawrence county. Hon. D. M. Russell, Chancellor. Suit by I. N. Ellis against Mack Sutton and others. Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals. The Suttons had no title, legal or equitable, in the lands.
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Appeal from chancery court of Lawrence county. Hon. D. M. Russell, Chancellor. Suit by I. N. Ellis against Mack Sutton and others. Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals. The Suttons had no title, legal or equitable, in the lands. They had repudiated Ellis as landlord and therefore, had no equitable right to emblements as in case of landlord and tenant. ' In fact the equitable doctrine of emblements as between landlord and tenant did not apply, and the whole crop severed or unsevered was in Ellis, as purchaser of the lands and we should have had decree in the court below for the value…
1Opinion of the Court
Anderson, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.'
This is a bill in chancery by the appellant, Ellis, against the appellees, Mack Sutton and John P. Sutton, and their *110tenants on certain lands in Lawrence county described in the bill, the title to which land appellant owned, alleging that the crops raised on said land by the appellees, the Suttons and their tenants, the other appellees, during 1919, belonged to appellant, and were by the appellees, who were insolvent, being harvested and sold, and that they would make way with the proceed^ thereof, thereby defeating the right of appellant to…
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