Patterson v. Edwards
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the high court of errors and appeals; Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. On the 22d April, 1851, A. Patterson filed his bill against the administrators and heirs of Richard Edwards, and against the widow and heirs of John Snodgrass, charging, that on the 1st May, 1843, he sold and conveyed certain lots in Yazoo City ’to Richard Edwards for the consideration of some $10,000 cash, then paid, and that said Edwards would take up and deliver to complainant two certain…
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On appeal from the high court of errors and appeals; Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. On the 22d April, 1851, A. Patterson filed his bill against the administrators and heirs of Richard Edwards, and against the widow and heirs of John Snodgrass, charging, that on the 1st May, 1843, he sold and conveyed certain lots in Yazoo City ’to Richard Edwards for the consideration of some $10,000 cash, then paid, and that said Edwards would take up and deliver to complainant two certain notes due to the Planters Bank, and payable 26th February, 1840. The deed for the lots expresses the consideration as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Handy
This was a bill filed by the appellant in the superior court of chancery, alleging that he had conveyed certain lots of ground to Richard Edwards for the consideration of $10,000, paid in cash, and that Edwards would take up and deliver to him two specific notes,, secured by mortgage due by the vendor to the Planters Bank, and payable in February, 1840; that Edwards made the purchase for one Snodgrass, and both of them are dead without having taken up the notes to the bank, and their *71heirs and representatives are made parties. The bill claims a lien upon the lots for unpaid purchase-money,…
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