MAGEE v. Holmes

Toxie B. Magee and others, complainants, filed their bill in the Chancery Court of Walthall County against H. B. Holmes, the defendant, to quiet their title to a 72vacre tract of land owned by N. C. Fortenberry, deceased, at the time of his death, and for a discovery and accounting for rents and the proceeds of the sale of timber.

In their bill the complainants alleged that they were the owners of the land in fee simple, as tenants in common, having derived title thereto under a joint will executed by N. C. Fortenberry and his wife, Mrs. A. E. Fortenberry, on November 28, 1928. The…