Jackson v. Day

This is an appeal from a decree of the chancery court dismissing the bill of appellant seeking to set aside and cancel a deed which she executed to A. J. Day, February 6,1941, conveying to him fifty-three acres of land located in Yazoo County, Mississippi. The bill is grounded upon misrepresentations and overreaching of appellant by appellee and mutual mistake as to material facts, which induced the execution of the deed.

This is a 'fair summary of the facts: Andella Jackson became the owner of the lands under a partition deed in 1917. Shortly thereafter, she moved from Yazoo County to Coahoma…