Ostrander v. Quin
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Lowndes county. Hon. James E. McCool, Chancellor. Mrs. Ostrander, appellant, was complainant in the court below; Mrs. Quin and others were defendants there. Erom a decree in defendants’ favor the complainant appealed to the supreme court.
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From the chancery court of Lowndes county. Hon. James E. McCool, Chancellor. Mrs. Ostrander, appellant, was complainant in the court below; Mrs. Quin and others were defendants there. Erom a decree in defendants’ favor the complainant appealed to the supreme court. Miss Mary Harriet Edmondson, -now Mrs. Ostrander, the appellant, on the 28th of December, 1899, being at that time only eighteen years, five months and twenty-four days old, but sufficiently matured to be easily believed to be an adult, borrowed money from the appellee, Mrs. Quin, and she executed a deed of trust to secure the…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
This record presents a bill by appellant to enjoin a sale of land by tbe trustee in a trust deed to secure appellee, without tender of tbe money bad, on tbe ground that appellant was a minor when sbe made it. Mrs. Quin’s answer sets up igno*235ranee of the age of Mrs. Ostrander, and that she (Mrs. Quin) was a widow, of limited means, and that appellant came to her and said she was in great need and wanted the money for the necessaries of life; that she was of age and competent to make the deed; and that, believing and relying on this statement, she loaned the little money she had, and that…
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