Smith v. Cook

The appellant, Minnie Smith, complainant in the lower court, filed her hill in the Chancery Court of Walthall County against the appellee, James Cook, as defendant, seeking to confirm her title to a tract of land described as “all that part of the SW!4 of the NWli, Section 25, Township 2 North, Range 10 East, lying and being North of the Fernwood & Gulf Railroad right of way,” containing seven acres, more or less.

The complainant alleged in her bill of complaint that she had acquired title to the above mentioned 7-acre tract of land in 1914 by a deed of conveyance from the heirs of William…