Fisher v. Grimes
Mississippi Chancery Courts
The bill was filed by Fisher Beverly, R. Grayson, and Nancy Brown, administrators and administratrix, cum testamento annexo, of Jesse S. Brown, deceased, and alleged that their testator was seised of lands in his lifetime, which, by order of Court, they had sold to Burwell T. Edrington, who gave his note, with sureties for the purchase-money, and they conveyed the land by deed to Edrington ; that Edrington died, leaving a widow and two children; that, before his death, he…
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The bill was filed by Fisher Beverly, R. Grayson, and Nancy Brown, administrators and administratrix, cum testamento annexo, of Jesse S. Brown, deceased, and alleged that their testator was seised of lands in his lifetime, which, by order of Court, they had sold to Burwell T. Edrington, who gave his note, with sureties for the purchase-money, and they conveyed the land by deed to Edrington ; that Edrington died, leaving a widow and two children; that, before his death, he sold the lands in controversy to the defendants then in possession, who had full notice of the statutory lien, which the…
1Opinion of the Court
Chancellor.
This bill is filed, by the administrator of Jesse S. Brown, to foreclose, the statutory mortgage, given by our laws, on a tract of land, sold by him under an order of the Probate Court of Yazoo county. It appears that Edrington, who became the purchaser at that sale, has since died, and the land was again sold, as his property; at which sale the present holders became purchasers, with full notice of the prior lien in favor of the complainants. It also appears that Mrs. Brown, the widow of Jesse S. Brown, claimed and had allotted to her dower in the land thus sold, and that…
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- Corinth Bank & Trust Co. v. WallaceMississippi Supreme Court · 1916
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