O'Reilly v. Hendricks
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the circuit court of Yazoo county. The opinion of the court contains a statement of the facts. The record in this cause is so replete with errors, that it only becomes necessary to point out a few of the most prominent ones, in order to obtain a reversal of the judgment.
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In error from the circuit court of Yazoo county. The opinion of the court contains a statement of the facts. The record in this cause is so replete with errors, that it only becomes necessary to point out a few of the most prominent ones, in order to obtain a reversal of the judgment. In the first place, the decision of the court, permitting the two deeds of trust executed by William Watts Jones to Joseph B. Littlejohn, to go in evidence to the jury, was made in the teeth of an express statutory provision, and in hostility to the clearest principles of law. Because the deed, marked “ B,” was…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sharkey
This proceeding was instituted, for the purpose of charging the defendants, as executors de son tort of one Jones, against whom, in his lifetime, the plaintiffs had recovered a judgment for 91400.
No question has been raised on'the pleadings; but the parties have presented the case on its merits, and so we shall consider of it.
By the first bill of exceptions it appears, that the plaintiffs proved that the defendants sold thirfy-one negroes, which were the property of Jones in his lifetime, for the sum of $9650. The judgment of the plaintiffs against Jones was also read ; it was recovered on…
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