Pigford v. Ladner

This is a suit for partition of land, of which Jonathan E. Ladner, deceased, was seized and possessed. The complainants are children of a second marriage of Ladner and the defendant claims by purchase from Ladner’s children by his first marriage, and the issue presented by the pleading is the validity vel non of the second marriage. The case was before this court at the March, 1925, term, on appeal from a decree dismissing the complainants’ bill rendered on bill, answer, cross-bill, and proof, and the decree was reversed and the cause remanded. Ladner v. Pigford, 103 So. 218, 138 Miss. 461.…