Willis v. Gattman
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Monroe County. Hon. L. Haughton, Chancellor. In November, 1837, Austin Willis married Arrilla Dyche, the daughter of Isaac R. Dyche, of Monroe County, Mississippi. At her marriage, Mr. Dyche presented his daughter with some slaves, who were controlled and managed by her husband, and he received the productions of their labor.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Monroe County. Hon. L. Haughton, Chancellor. In November, 1837, Austin Willis married Arrilla Dyche, the daughter of Isaac R. Dyche, of Monroe County, Mississippi. At her marriage, Mr. Dyche presented his daughter with some slaves, who were controlled and managed by her husband, and he received the productions of their labor. The legislature of Mississippi, on the 15th of February, 1839, passed an act, entitled “ An Act for the protection and preservation of the rights of married women (Hutch. Code, p. 496), the first section of which act was as follows: —…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, J.
In 1865, Austin Willis conveyed to his children a tract of land containing about one thousand acres, in repayment, as he claims, of certain money and property which he had received and used, belonging to his deceased wife, their mother. By mistake of the scrivener who prepared the deed forty acres of the land were omitted ; but the children took possession of all the land, which constituted a single plantation.
In 1872, the children, all of whom were adults, sold and conveyed the land, for value, to Lafayette Willis. In their deed to Lafayette Willis, the forty acres which had been omitted…
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