Elmslie v. Thurman
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Washington county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Mrs. Elmslie, the appellant, was complainant in the court below; Mrs. Thurman and others, the appellees, were defendants there. Erom a decree in defendants’ favor the comjilainant ajipealed to the supreme court.
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From the chancery court of Washington county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Mrs. Elmslie, the appellant, was complainant in the court below; Mrs. Thurman and others, the appellees, were defendants there. Erom a decree in defendants’ favor the comjilainant ajipealed to the supreme court. The complainant, by her bill in chancery, sought to enforce a vendor’s lien arising out of a conveyance from James Campbell to Id. and J. D. Nichols, the complainant being the assignee of the notes evidencing the purchase money. On the trial in the court below, the chancellor sustained the obj ection of the…
1Opinion of the CourtOalhoon, J.
This case is improperly styled on the back of the record, and on the docket here; the real defendants below, appellees here, being Mrs, M. E. Thurman, R. Lee Thurman, and J. D. Nichols. The apparent first-named appellee of the docket style, Jesse N. Thurman, nowhere appears in the record.
As assignee of purchase-money notes, appellant sought by his bill to enforce the vendor’s lien on land to pay them. She is clearly entitled to a decree of sale unless appellees are right on the solitary contention they make, which will be presently stated. Iier bill avers the conveyance of the land by her…
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