Livermore v. Johnson
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the superior court of chancery; Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. The facts of the case will be found sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court, and in the points made by appellant’s counsel. To the bill in this cause the defendant filed a plea of the act of limitations, which the chancellor sustained, on the ground that the matter set up in the bill raised a resulting trust from defendant for coinplainants, and that such a trust is barred by limitation.
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On appeal from the superior court of chancery; Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. The facts of the case will be found sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court, and in the points made by appellant’s counsel. To the bill in this cause the defendant filed a plea of the act of limitations, which the chancellor sustained, on the ground that the matter set up in the bill raised a resulting trust from defendant for coinplainants, and that such a trust is barred by limitation. This decree was ordered by chancellor Cocke, and was signed by his successor, and the order is for a decree sustaining…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Smith
This bill was filed in the superior court of chancery by William W. Livermore, executor of Alma Post, deceased, Charles A. Floyd, Allison Post and his wife Elizabeth, the heirs at law of Richard F. Floyd, deceased.
The bill alleged that the said Richard F. Floyd, who died intestate, was at the time of his death the owner of lands situated in Mississippi; that after his death his heirs at law appointed John J. Carman their agent and attorney in fact to sell and dispose of those lands, and that Carman, as such agent and attorney, sold and conveyed the lands to sundry persons. Amongst these, he…
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