Evans v. Davis

LEE, Justice, for the Court:

Jewell Davis filed suit in the Chancery Court of Lincoln County against Gayle J. Evans and Barbara Evans seeking fifty percent (50%) of their profits derived from the operation and sale of a nursing home in Brookhaven, Mississippi. The chancellor granted the relief prayed for and entered judgment in favor of Davis in the sum of forty-seven thousand one hundred sixty-one dollars thirty-one cents ($47,161.31) and the Evans have appealed, assigning two (2) errors in the trial below.

Although the evidence is contradictory in many respects, Gayle J. Evans and Jewell…