McComb v. Gilkey
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the circuit court of Claiborne county; Hon. Stanhope Posey, judge. This was an action of ejectment, to recover possession of a lot in the town .of Port Gibson, described lot 6, in square 9; On the trial the lessors of the plaintiff offered in evidence the deposition of Elizabeth Coursey, who testified that she was the widow of Elijah Bland, deceased, to whom she was duly.married in 1809 ; that Elijah Bland died in 1820, in Port Gibson.
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In error from the circuit court of Claiborne county; Hon. Stanhope Posey, judge. This was an action of ejectment, to recover possession of a lot in the town .of Port Gibson, described lot 6, in square 9; On the trial the lessors of the plaintiff offered in evidence the deposition of Elizabeth Coursey, who testified that she was the widow of Elijah Bland, deceased, to whom she was duly.married in 1809 ; that Elijah Bland died in 1820, in Port Gibson. That there were three children, the issue of the marriage, namely, Richard J. Bland, Sarah Ann, and Susan Bland, who were all alive when their…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Handy
■ This was an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Claiborne county, to recover possession of a lot of ground in the town of Port Gibson.
The wife of the lessor of the plaintiff claimed title to the premises as the heir at law of Elijah Bland.
The defendant claimed title from the same source, and in order to show that the title of Bland and his heirs at law had been divested, offered in evidence an act of the legislature of *185this State, passed in November, 1821, entitled “An Act to authorize the guardians of the infant children of Armstrong Ellis, Elijah Bland, and Francis Nailor, to sell…
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