Williams v. Simon

This is a suit in equity by which the appellee, the complainant in the court below, seeks to recover from the appellants damages for an alleged breach of a warranty against incumbrances contained in a deed by which the appellants conveyed certain real property to the appellee. A question that arises at the threshold of the case and which must be decided before the merits thereof can be reached is the validity vel non of the term of the court at which the decree appealed from was rendered.

Chapter 140, Laws of 1920, provides that the chancery court of Tunica county shall convene on the second…