Lyebrook v. Hall
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Copiah county. Hon. H. C. Conn, Chancellor. This was a proceeding by Mrs. O. Y. Hall for the cancellation of a deed made by one Fugate to the defendant, Mrs. J. A. Lyebrook, then Mrs. J. J. Cason, on April 8, 1885, as a cloud upon her title to the land in controversy.
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From the chancery court of Copiah county. Hon. H. C. Conn, Chancellor. This was a proceeding by Mrs. O. Y. Hall for the cancellation of a deed made by one Fugate to the defendant, Mrs. J. A. Lyebrook, then Mrs. J. J. Cason, on April 8, 1885, as a cloud upon her title to the land in controversy. The bill alleges that complainant’s father, in 1857, was seized and possessed of the land; that he died some time during the civil war, at which time he still owned the land, which descended to complainant as his only heir at law; that she, the complainant, was. in possession at the institution of…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
It might be sufficient to say as to the sale on May 10, 1875, under the abatement act, that the amended bill avers that the .lands were not delinquent for any year prior to 1874, and hence not of the class of lands subject to sale under that act; and that the answer to the amended bill does not deny this, and there is absolutely no proof on the subject in the record. There would, in that view, have been no valid sale under that act. But if the sale had been valid, the purchase on March 15, 1878, by Z. T. Cason, under the facts of record, operated a redemption. His said purchase having, when…
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