Nixon v. Porter
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Hancock county. Hon. William M. Hancock, judge. The -defendants in error, claiming to be the heirs of John Porter, deceased, in October, 1854, brought their action, under the Pleading Act of 1850, against Rebecca Nixon and Samuel White, to recover possession of a certain tract of land situated in Hancock county.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Hancock county. Hon. William M. Hancock, judge. The -defendants in error, claiming to be the heirs of John Porter, deceased, in October, 1854, brought their action, under the Pleading Act of 1850, against Rebecca Nixon and Samuel White, to recover possession of a certain tract of land situated in Hancock county. On the trial, the plaintiffs below offered in evidence an instrument, purporting to he a deed made by Charles Nicaise, on the 23d day of September, A.D. 1816, conveying certain lands to said John Porter. This deed purported to have been acknowledged by…
1Opinion of the CourtFisher, J.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs below, under the Pleading Act of 1850, in the Circuit Court of Hancock county, to recover a tract of land, alleged to be in the possession of the defendants.
The plaintiffs claim as heirs-at-law of John Porter, deceased, to whom the land in controversy was conveyed in 1816, by one Charles Nicaise; and the first error assigned relates to the admission of this deed, as evidence. The circumstance of Porter’s possession, in 1816 or 1818, of land, believed to be the same land conveyed by the deed, coupled with the acknowledgment of Nicaise, in 1838, that…
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