Maynard v. Cocke
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of the first district of Coahoma county. Hon. E. W. Williamson, Judge. On December 17, 1888, W. F. Eozell, being the owner of a plantation in Coahoma county, Miss., sold and conveyed the same to Mrs. Maggie C. Maynard.
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From the circuit court of the first district of Coahoma county. Hon. E. W. Williamson, Judge. On December 17, 1888, W. F. Eozell, being the owner of a plantation in Coahoma county, Miss., sold and conveyed the same to Mrs. Maggie C. Maynard. The consideration was $7,000, of which $2,500 was paid in cash, and, for the balance of $4,500, the purchaser executed her note to said Eozell, payable December 1,1893, and for the annual interest thereon she executed her four several promissory notes for $450 each, due respectively December 1, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892. A vendor’s lien was reserved in the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The hovel and most interesting -legal question, which isai’gued with much learning and ability by counsel for the respective parties, is this : Can the dual relations of vendor and vendee and landlord and tenant subsist between the same parties when the vendee has received from the vendor an absolute conveyance to the lands sought to be charged with rent? This is the key to an entrance upon a field of legal inquiry which has not yet been judicially explored, and whose boundaries have, not yet been ascertained and declared, so-far as the research of learned counsel, supplemented someAvhat by…
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