Young v. Wark
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Monroe county. Hon. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. The appellees, Mary E. Wark et al., were the complainants in the court below. The appellants, Young et al., were defendants there. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The plea of res judicata is a complete bar to the maintenance of the bill by Mary E. Wark and William Sadler.
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From the chancery court of Monroe county. Hon. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. The appellees, Mary E. Wark et al., were the complainants in the court below. The appellants, Young et al., were defendants there. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The plea of res judicata is a complete bar to the maintenance of the bill by Mary E. Wark and William Sadler. Both of these complainants appeared by counsel when the will was presented for proof and probate, and presented the same objection to the probate of the will that is now urged in the bill against its validity. These issues…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
S. A. M. Sadler, at the time of his death, occupied a room at the house of Mr. Blake, his tenant, where he died about 12 o’clock M., on the last Saturday of January, 1897. He was carried to his burial on the following Monday, and on the evening of that day some papers belonging to him were taken from a table drawer used by him, and other of his papers were taken from his trunk, which were found at the Blake place; and in the room in which he died, upon the mantel -piece, behind a vase, a piece of paper folded was found, upon which unfolded was written these words: “ Want Sarah relativds have…
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