Hamblet v. Harrison
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Quitman county. Hon. A. McO. Kimbrough, Chancellor. Mrs. Harrison, appellee, was complainant in the court below Mrs. Hamblet, appellant, was defendant there. From a decree in complainant’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court.
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From the chancery court of Quitman county. Hon. A. McO. Kimbrough, Chancellor. Mrs. Harrison, appellee, was complainant in the court below Mrs. Hamblet, appellant, was defendant there. From a decree in complainant’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court. This suit was instituted by Mrs. Harrison and her children, complainants in the court below, against Mrs. Hamblet, der.. fendant, to récover of her certain lands described in the bill, and for the cancellation of her claim to the same. The lands had been conveyed to Mrs. Hamblet by her husband, F. M; Hamblet, since deceased. The lands…
1Opinion of the CourtOaxu-ioon, J.
In this case the husband, before his marriage, acquired his claim of title in actual fraud of appellees, and afterward married and conveyed the land to his wife, and died. If living, and if he had not conveyed it, he could not hold it against those whom he had defrauded. Neither can his wife. Public policy forbids. It is said with great force and clearness by Judge Cooper, in Robinson v. Lewis, 68 Miss., on page 11 (8 So., 259; 10 L. R. A., 101; 24 Am. St. Eep., 254), that: “If the rule which prevents one spouse from securing a title where the other is disqualified, rests only upon a supposed…
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