Selph v. Howland
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the circuit court of Harrison county; Hon. Wiley P. Harris, judge. At the March term of 1847, of the circuit court of Harrison county, defendant in error filed his petition for his lien as a carpenter, for work and labor done, and for 'materials furnished in erecting a dwelling-house, on the land .held by plaintiffs in error, and for the payment of $118 dollars.
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In error from the circuit court of Harrison county; Hon. Wiley P. Harris, judge. At the March term of 1847, of the circuit court of Harrison county, defendant in error filed his petition for his lien as a carpenter, for work and labor done, and for 'materials furnished in erecting a dwelling-house, on the land .held by plaintiffs in error, and for the payment of $118 dollars. The legal title to the premises was in R. L. Dixon, who held, by virtue of a deed of trust from William H. Calvert and M. H. Calvert, for the separate use of Sarah Selph, one of the defendants, and wife of Job G. Selph,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Smith
Howland filed his petition in the circuit court of Harrison county, under the mechanics’ lien law, to subject certain real property, situated at Pass Christian, to the payment of a debt due to him for materials furnished and labor performed as a mechanic. The agreement, in execution of which the work was done and the materials furnished, was entered into by the petitioner, with Job G. Selph, and Mrs. Sarah H. Selph, his wife.
The legal title to the real estate, which it is the object of the petition to charge, is held by R. L. Dixon, to whom it was conveyed in 1845, in trust for the sole and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gardner v. GardnerCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1839
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