Kennedy v. Sanders
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Sanders and others, appellees, were the complainants in the court below, and Kennedy and others, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree in- favor of complainants the defendants appealed to the supreme court.
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From the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Sanders and others, appellees, were the complainants in the court below, and Kennedy and others, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree in- favor of complainants the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The complainants, claiming the ownership of certain real estate, filed their bill in chancery against the defendants to cancel, as a cloud upon their title, the claims of the defendants thereto, and for a confirmation of the title of complainants. Proper deraignment of title from the United States Government…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
The appellees were the real and true owners of the land involved in this controversy, having a perfect paper title thereto from the government down to the late Judge William Coth*535ran; his title having been derived from a patent from the state of Mississippi to him. William Cothran and his wife, Sarah T. Cothran, died seised and possessed, and the complainants inherit the land from her, being the sons of the said Sarah T. Cothran by her former husband, J. W. Sanders; Judge William Cothran having died intestate in November, 1882, and his widow, Sarah T. Cothran, having died in January, 1892. No…
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