Old Ladies Home v. Cooper

Joe S. Cooper filed his bill of complaint in the Chancery Court of Coahoma County alleging ownership of Lots 9,10,11,12,13, 21, 22, 23 and 24 of the Melrose Place Subdivision to Clarksdale, Mississippi, and praying for the cancellation of the claims of the Old Ladies Home and of Belhaven College as clouds upon his title thereto. Belhaven College did not plead to the bill and a decree pro confesso and final decree were taken against them. There was an answer by the Old Ladies Home and in the answer there was incorporated a demurrer setting up that the bill states no cause of action against the…