Griffing v. Pintard
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the southern district chancery court at Natchez; Hon. James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. The opinion of the court contains a 'sufficient statement of the facts of the case. In equity, as at law, the complainant must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant’s.
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On appeal from the southern district chancery court at Natchez; Hon. James M. Smiley, vice-chancellor. The opinion of the court contains a 'sufficient statement of the facts of the case. In equity, as at law, the complainant must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant’s. Before the complainant has any claim on the defendant, or on property in his peaceable possession, (with or without title,) he must show affirmatively, that he has the claim. “ It is not only necessary that the substaqce of the case made by each party should be proved, but it must…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fisher
The appellee filed his bill in the vice-chancery court at Natchez, against the appellants, Allin G. Bowen, Thomas Freeland and others, for the purpose of subjecting a certain tract of land, in the possession of Francis and Jabish Griffing, to the payment of a judgment which he recovered at the November term, 1847, of the circuit court of Adams county, against the said Bowen, for the sum of four thousand and thirty-six dollars; and also for the purpose of subjecting said land to the payment of a note made by the said Bowen to the appellee, for the sum of one thousand three hundred and…
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