Alcorn v. Alcorn
Mississippi Supreme Court
From: the chancery court, second district, of Coahoma county. Hon. A. H. Longuno, chancellor. Amelia W.- Alcorn, the appellee, was the complainant in the court below; the appellant, May Yates Alcorn, was defendant there. Complainant is the widow of the late Governor James L. Alcorn; defendant the widow of James Alcorn, deceased, a son of Governor Alcorn.
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From: the chancery court, second district, of Coahoma county. Hon. A. H. Longuno, chancellor. Amelia W.- Alcorn, the appellee, was the complainant in the court below; the appellant, May Yates Alcorn, was defendant there. Complainant is the widow of the late Governor James L. Alcorn; defendant the widow of James Alcorn, deceased, a son of Governor Alcorn. The bill avers that Governor Alcorn devised Eagle’s Nest plantation to complainant, upon which their home was located; that she desired her son James Alcorn to be the owner of Eagle’s Nest after her death, and to that end she executed and…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
This appeal was granted to settle the principles of the cause. The only point for adjudication, however, is the propriety of the action of the chancellor in retaining the injunction till the final hearing. And all that we shall say will be understood as addressed solely to the solution of that question. We have given this record a most thorough consideration, and from it are satisfied that the appellant’s counsel puts his contention too strongly when he characterizes the injunction as having for its sole object the putting the appellant out of, and the appellee into, the possession of the…
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