Burkett v. Burkett
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Monroe county. Hon. Henry L. Muldrow, Chancellor. Mrs. Burkett, guardian, the appellant, was the complainant, and Exile Burkett and another, appellees, were defendants in the court below. From a decree in defendants’ favor complainant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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From the chancery court of Monroe county. Hon. Henry L. Muldrow, Chancellor. Mrs. Burkett, guardian, the appellant, was the complainant, and Exile Burkett and another, appellees, were defendants in the court below. From a decree in defendants’ favor complainant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. No construction will be given the former decree that violates the law; and we now proceed to show that the construction put on it in the court below violates settled principles of law’. It will not be denied that Exile Burkett submitted himself to the…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
The bill or petition in chancery in this cause makes an exhibit of certain other .proceedings in the same court, which it is convenient, for the sake of clearness of statement, to present first. These proceedings terminated in a final decree, of date May 6, 1902, on “petition, answer, and proof,” and were commenced by a petition filed by James, Jr., Belle, Jr., Nettie, Garnett, Louise, and Dewetta Burkitt, minors, by their mother and next friend, Belle Burkitt, and makes Frank and Exile Burkitt defendants, naming them as executors of the will of Gen. Henry L. Burkitt, deceased, and it…
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