Thompson v. Strickland
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Marshall County. Hon. DeWitt StearNS, Chancellor. All the material facts in this case are fully stated in the ■opinionof the court.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Marshall County. Hon. DeWitt StearNS, Chancellor. All the material facts in this case are fully stated in the ■opinionof the court. The following are assigned for error : 1. The court erred in sustaining the demurrer of J. W. Clapp et al. to the bill of the complainants. 2. The court erred in overruling the exceptions filed by the • complainants to the answer of W. M. Strickland. 3. The court erred in admitting certain testimony offered by the defendant W. M. Strickland to the admission of which., complainants filed bills of exception in the court below,…
1Opinion of the CourtSimrall, J.
This litigation was originally instituted by Thomas H. Hudson and Mary, his wife, and Morgan H. Thompson.
The latter has ceased to have any interest in it, and it is now prosecuted by Hudson and wife.
James M. Thompson, the father of Mrs. Hudson, Mrs., Strickland, and Morgan H. Thompson, died testate in 1848, owning a large estate in lands, slaves, town property, wild lands, etc., worth quite $150,000. By the year 1852 the executor had closed his administration under the will, and in that year turned the property over to the defendant Strickland who had married the testator’s eldest daughter,…
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