McLemore v. Chicago, St. Louis, & New Orleans Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Yalobusha County. Hon. J. W. C. Watson, Judge. This is an action of ejectment, brought on the 11th of November, 1879, by Melissa McLemore and others against the Chicago, St. Louis, aud New Orleans Railroad Company, to recover “lot No. 2, in block J, in tbe city of Water Valley.” The judgment was for the defendant, and the plaintiffs sued out a writ of error.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Yalobusha County. Hon. J. W. C. Watson, Judge. This is an action of ejectment, brought on the 11th of November, 1879, by Melissa McLemore and others against the Chicago, St. Louis, aud New Orleans Railroad Company, to recover “lot No. 2, in block J, in tbe city of Water Valley.” The judgment was for the defendant, and the plaintiffs sued out a writ of error. The questions presented by the case and the facts in relation thereto, as contained in the record, are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. As the construction of art. 97, p. 555, of the Code of…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The defendant held the land by successive conveyances under Joseph T. Goode, who in 1867 had obtained a decree of the Chancery Court of Yalobusha County appointing a commissioner to convey to him all the title and interest of the widow and children of S. B. McLemore, deceased, and had received such conveyance by the commissioner in pursuance of the •decree. The plaintiffs claimed to recover the land as the widow and heirs of S. B. McLemore, and sought to defeat the foundation of the claim of the defendant, which was the decree mentioned, by evidence of a bill exhibited by them in the •court…
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