Jones v. Loggins
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Rankin county. Hon. John Watts, chancellor. The facts of this case appear to be in substance as follows : In December, 1852, Daniel Jones made a verbal agreement with E. H. Lombard, for the purchase of a quarter section of land situated in Rankin county, at the sum of $320, payable in four equal annual instalments, with six per cent, interest. Under the contract, Jones entered into possession and commenced making improvements on the same.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Rankin county. Hon. John Watts, chancellor. The facts of this case appear to be in substance as follows : In December, 1852, Daniel Jones made a verbal agreement with E. H. Lombard, for the purchase of a quarter section of land situated in Rankin county, at the sum of $320, payable in four equal annual instalments, with six per cent, interest. Under the contract, Jones entered into possession and commenced making improvements on the same. In a few days thereafter, Tilman Loggins, at the suggestion of Jones, purchased a tract of several hundred acres…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
This bill was filed by Daniel Jones, complainant’s intestate, against Tilman Loggins and his wife, Helen, Albert Robbins, and Ephraim H. Lombard, to enforce the specific performance of a contract for the sale of land against defendant Loggins, to cancel a deed executed'for the same land to Robbins by Loggins, as fraudulent and void against complainant, and to restrain defendant Lombard, from whom Loggins purchased the land, sold to complainant ■with a large body of other lands, from selling the land claimed by complainant, to satisfy his vendors lien against Loggins, until he *550shall have first…
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