Baker v. Richardson
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Bolivar county. BEoN. JVIaNüel E. DeNtoN, Chancellor. Baker and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below; Bichardson, appellee, was defendant there. The suit was for partition of lands. Erom a final decree in defendant’s favor the complainants appealed to the supreme court.
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From the chancery court of Bolivar county. BEoN. JVIaNüel E. DeNtoN, Chancellor. Baker and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below; Bichardson, appellee, was defendant there. The suit was for partition of lands. Erom a final decree in defendant’s favor the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court to-present the question of law decided. [The briefs of counsel could not be found by the reporter,, hence no synopses of them are given in tins report.]
1Opinion of the Court
Mayes, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
By an instrument bearing date October 11, 1859, signed, acknowledged, and delivered on tbe 18tb day of October, 1859, recorded in Adams county on tbe 31st day of October, I860,, and in Bolivar county on tbe 6tb day of December of tbe same' year, Amos Alexander, tbe common source of title, made wbat we bave no hesitation in declaring to be a.deed, conveying to bis daughter, Eliza Jane Gray, a certain tract of land therein described “for and during her natural life, and then to her children, if any, and in default of children or child then to' bis…
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