Nevitt v. Gillespie
Mississippi Supreme Court
ON the 2d day of October, 1829, Nelson Gillespie filed his bill of complaint in the clerk’s office of the superior court of chancery of the western district at Natchez, against John B. Nevitt and George W. Nevitt.
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ON the 2d day of October, 1829, Nelson Gillespie filed his bill of complaint in the clerk’s office of the superior court of chancery of the western district at Natchez, against John B. Nevitt and George W. Nevitt. By the bill it is alleged that the complainant, on the 10th day of May, 1829, purchased in fee of John Minor, executor, and Katharine Minor, executrix of the last will and testament of Stephen Minor, deceased, about sixty-seven and one half acres of land, near the city of Natchez, in the county of Adams, on the Mississippi river, which land was granted in fee simple by the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shith
This is an appeal from a decision of the chancellor overruling a motion in the court of chancery, to dissolve an injunction, obtained by the appellee, for want of equity in the bill. The questions involved in the contest between the parties are acknowledged to be questions purely of a legal character, and properly cognisable in a court of common law. It is, however, contended that the case disclosed by the- appellee, in his bill, is embraced within the principle of a peculiar class of laws, of which equity may take cognisance.
Courts of equity have frequently interposed when legal questions…
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