McDaniel v. Johns
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie chancery court of Franklin county. Smiley, J. The bill presents this case. On the 2d November, 1855,. the appellant, then residing here, was possessed of a considerable estate, consisting of lands and slaves.
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Appeal from tlie chancery court of Franklin county. Smiley, J. The bill presents this case. On the 2d November, 1855,. the appellant, then residing here, was possessed of a considerable estate, consisting of lands and slaves. Being then about seventy years of age, and having an aged wife and several children, and desiring to avoid the litigation and expense that might, after his death, follow, if he made a will in common form, and yet to make such division and distribution of his estate, to take effect after the death of himself and wife, as would be equitable and just, in view of prior…
1Opinion of the Court
Peyton, C. J. :
On the 2d day of November, 1855, John McDaniel, in consideration of natural love and affection, conveyed by deed to his son, James H. McDaniel, and his heirs, certain lands situated in Franklin county in this state, reserving to himself and his wife, the use and occupation of said lands during their natural lives. And, on the same day, he made a like deed of gift of certain other lands situate in the same county to his daughter, Susannah E. McDaniel and her *641heirs, with the reservation of the nse and occupation of the same during the natural lives of himself and wife. And on the…
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