Snell v. Fewell
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County. Hon. Sylvanus Evans, Chancellor. In 1885 Mrs. Maggie Lee Fewell filed this bill against Robert Snell to remove clouds cast upon her title to certain land by reason of a claim thereto by the defendant.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County. Hon. Sylvanus Evans, Chancellor. In 1885 Mrs. Maggie Lee Fewell filed this bill against Robert Snell to remove clouds cast upon her title to certain land by reason of a claim thereto by the defendant. The bill alleges that in August, 1859, Robert Snell, Sr., father of defendant, conveyed whatever claim he had to the land in question by a contract or memorandum in writing for a valid consideration to J. H. Gibbs, and that the purchase-money was paid; that this contract or memorandum is now lost; that in 1.861 J. H. Gibbs conveyed by deed…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
Gibbs and Trott were competent witnesses for the complainant. Neither of them is seeking to assert any claim or interest in the property in controversy, and it is not shown that at the time of the death of Snell they had any interest in the land which they have since transferred. The incompetency of witnesses resulting from interest in the result of the suit, or in the record as an instrument of evidence in other suits, has been entirely removed by law. Code, § 1599, But by § 1602 of the code it is declared that “ no person shall testify as a witness to establish his own claim of any amount…
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