Whitfield v. Thompson
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Olay county. Hon. Henry L. Muldrow,. Chancellor. Whitfield and others, appellants, were complainants, and Thompson and others, appellees, defendants in the court below. From a decree in favor of defendants, the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The bill of complaint charged that they were the children of W. W. Whitfield and the only grandchildren of Wm. Whitfield; that Wm.
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From the chancery court of Olay county. Hon. Henry L. Muldrow,. Chancellor. Whitfield and others, appellants, were complainants, and Thompson and others, appellees, defendants in the court below. From a decree in favor of defendants, the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The bill of complaint charged that they were the children of W. W. Whitfield and the only grandchildren of Wm. Whitfield; that Wm. Whitfield died in the year 1854, possessed of large bodies of land, then in Lowndes county, now Clay county; that he had three children — W. W. Whitfield, John A. Whitfield, and Lucy A.…
1Opinion of the Court
Mayes,* Special Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
William Whitfield formerly owned a large estate in Lowndes county and in what is now Olay county. In 1854 he died, having executed a will, the proper construction of which gives rise to this litigation. The testator left two sons — John A. and William W. — and a daughter, Lucy Ann. The two sons were named as executors, and the will, after certain legacies of personalty, provided in its earlier items that certain designated lands and slaves should go to each of his three children for life (with cross-remainders in the event of death…
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