Calmes v. Weill

BRADY, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from a decree rendered in the Chancery Court of Harrison County, Mississippi, overruling two pleas in bar contained in the answer and cross-bill of the appellant, John Calmes.

The following facts are relevant to the consideration of the interlocutory appeal: On December 21, 1966, appellee, Adrian Weill, filed his Bill of Complaint to confirm his tax title to certain land in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi. The complaint averred that the property had been quitclaimed to appellant, John Calmes, on January 13, 1950, by Mrs. E. A. (Hazel) Braun,…