Griffin v. Mixon
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Chickasaw county. Hon. William Cothran, judge. This was an action of ejectment, commenced under the Pleading Act of 1850, to recover a quarter section of land, situated in Chickasaw county. The defendant pleaded a general denial, and set up a claim for improvements made by him on the land.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Chickasaw county. Hon. William Cothran, judge. This was an action of ejectment, commenced under the Pleading Act of 1850, to recover a quarter section of land, situated in Chickasaw county. The defendant pleaded a general denial, and set up a claim for improvements made by him on the land. The plaintiff claimed title under a deed from the State of Mississippi, which conveyed the title of the State, acquired by a forfeiture of the locus in quo for non-payment of taxes, under the provisions of the Act of 1850. In support of his title, the plaintiff -read in…
1Dissent
IlANDY, J.,
dissented, as follows :
Dissenting, as I do, from the opinion of the majority of the court, I will briefly state my views of the important questions therein considered.
This action was brought by the plaintiff in error to recover a tract of land in the possession of the defendant.
In support of the plaintiff’s title, he offered the following evidence :. 1st. A deed of conveyance from the State of Mississippi to one William W. Black, dated 18th June, 1853, for the lands in controversy ; reciting that it had been forfeited to the State for the nonpayment of taxes in April, 1851, and…
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