Ragsdale v. Meridian Land & Industrial Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Lauderdale county. IIon. W. T. Houston, Chancellor. L. A. Ragsdale, Sr., died in December, 1887, the owner of a very large estate, consisting chiefly of lands in and adjacent to the city of Meridian.
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From the chancery court of Lauderdale county. IIon. W. T. Houston, Chancellor. L. A. Ragsdale, Sr., died in December, 1887, the owner of a very large estate, consisting chiefly of lands in and adjacent to the city of Meridian. By his will, after making a few bequests, he devised certain lots in Meridian, known as the compress property, to his son, Lewis A. Ragsdale, the appellant, and all the residue of his property he devised jointly and equally to said Lewis A. Ragsdale and a daughter, Mrs. Ella C. Coffee. Lewis A. Ragsdale was named as executor, and qualified as such. Soon afterwards, he…
1Opinion of the Court
Alexander, Special J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is assigned for error that the decree allowed complain*294ant, the Meridian Land & Industrial Company, a credit of $4,650 on its purchase-notes, because of a deficiency in quantity of a certain tract of land, estimated to contain three hundred acres. In the schedule accompanying the contract of sale, the land conveyed is described as follows: “ S. E. ¼ of S. W. ¼, section 8, T. 6, R. 16, etc., less what has been sold to the railroad and water-works, and others, being in all net about three hundred acres, more or less.” The deed executed…
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