Ligon v. Barton
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the chancery court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Robert B. Mayes, Chancellor. Ligón and others, the appellants, were complainants in the court below; Barton, the appellee, was defendant there. Prom a decree in defendants’ favor the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The facts axe fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Prom the chancery court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Robert B. Mayes, Chancellor. Ligón and others, the appellants, were complainants in the court below; Barton, the appellee, was defendant there. Prom a decree in defendants’ favor the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The facts axe fully stated in the opinion of the court. If the deed from Ligón to his wife, granting merely a power to sell the land for a particular purpose, had been properly acknowledged and ready for delivery, keeping it in his own room among his private papers ivas not of itself such negligence or…
1Opinion of the Court
Oalhoon, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
Mrs. Sarah O. Ligón owned 720 aeres of land, and her husband, B. T. Ligón, owned 1564 acres adjoining it. The two made a trust deed,-covering both tracts, to secure $3,500, to the Jarvis-Oonklin Mortgage Company. With matters in this shape, B. T. Ligón wrote and signed and attempted to acknowledge the following:
“Hinds County, Miss., June 5th, 1892.
“Eor and in consideration of one dollar, I hereby bargain, grant and sell to S. C. Ligón, of, Hinds county, the following lands: E. 4 of S. E. £ of section 25, T. 6, B. 1 W., lying north of the Clinton…
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