Dochterman v. Marshall
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Claiborne county Hon. J. S. Hicks, Chancellor. Dochterman and another, appellants, were complainants in the court below; Marshall and others, appellees, were defendants there. From a decree in favor of defendants the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The facts of the case are sufficiently apparent from the opinion of the court.
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From the chancery court of Claiborne county Hon. J. S. Hicks, Chancellor. Dochterman and another, appellants, were complainants in the court below; Marshall and others, appellees, were defendants there. From a decree in favor of defendants the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The facts of the case are sufficiently apparent from the opinion of the court. The court below erred in granting the prayer of the amended cross-bill of Bernheimer for the reformation of his deed to appellant. The record title to the land, described in the deed by legal subdivisions, was in Bernheimer at the…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
Foster and Dochterman filed their bill against divers defendants, all of whom are éliminated except Martin, Bagnell, and Jacob Bernheimer. Foster and Dochterman aver that they are the owners of some two thousand eight hundred acres of land, and they deraign their title through a warranty deed from Jacob Bernheimer, one of the defendants, to them. They charge that they have not been put in possession of all the land in the calls of that deed to them, because, as to some of it, Bernheimer had no title, and because other parcels of it are held and claimed by defendants Martin and Bagnell, as to…
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