Howell v. Shannon
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Jackson county. Hon. Stone Deavours, Chancellor. Shannon, appellee, was complainant, and Howell, appellant, was defendant in the court below; from a decree in complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion states the case.
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From the chancery court of Jackson county. Hon. Stone Deavours, Chancellor. Shannon, appellee, was complainant, and Howell, appellant, was defendant in the court below; from a decree in complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion states the case. The testimony makes perfectly clear what occurred, and it was this: Howell had undertaken to pay his taxes; but .while he paid his taxes and got a receipt on part of his land, he did not pay on all of it. The land was advertised, and he detected the fact. He went to the sheriff’s office to pay up the residue of his…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
The matters of controversy in this suit were determined in the chancery court of Jackson county. The bill of complaint was filed by S. H. Shannon against William -Howell, in which Shannon claimed to be the owner of all. of section 34, township 5 S., range 6'W., in Jackson county, lying north of a line commencing 24 chains and 38 links north of the southeast corner of said section, and running thence west 40 chains to Kirkwood lake, thence following the center of said lake in a southerly course until it crosses the west line of said section 34, and seeking to cancel, as a cloud upon his title…
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