Long v. McGregor
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Noxubee County. Hon. F. A. Critz, Chancellor. Mrs. M. E. McGregor and her husband, G. T. McGregor, exhibited this bill against J. P. Long, T. B. Paulette, administrator of the estate of J. H. Paulette, and others.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Noxubee County. Hon. F. A. Critz, Chancellor. Mrs. M. E. McGregor and her husband, G. T. McGregor, exhibited this bill against J. P. Long, T. B. Paulette, administrator of the estate of J. H. Paulette, and others. The bill prayed that the sales of certain lands made under deeds of trust executed by complainants to secure certain debts to the defendants be set aside; that the deeds made in accordance therewith be cancelled ; that an account of the indebtedness of complainants with J. P. Long be stated and purged of all interest because the interest charged was…
1Opinion of the CourtArnold, J.
We find in the record no cause to disapprove the conclusion reached by the chancellor as to the facts ; and as to the law, it is quite clear that a court of equity has jurisdiction to annul a sale and titles, made and procured by the methods exhibited in the testimony for appellees, and which was accepted as true by the chancellor.
On the authority of Parchman v. McKinney, 12 S. and M. 631, it must be said, that there being special circumstances which justified resort to equity in the first place, it was not necessary for appellees to have offered in their bill, to pay interest at the legal…
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