Sykes v. Sykes
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Monroe county, Hon. O. H. Whitfield, Chancellor. The opinion of the court contains a sufficient statement of the facts in the case. The following is assigned for error: The granting dower to the appellee, in certain town lots and a plantation which W. A. Sykes had leased and disposed of in his life time, said dower being allowed in opposition to said disposition.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Monroe county, Hon. O. H. Whitfield, Chancellor. The opinion of the court contains a sufficient statement of the facts in the case. The following is assigned for error: The granting dower to the appellee, in certain town lots and a plantation which W. A. Sykes had leased and disposed of in his life time, said dower being allowed in opposition to said disposition. The appellee, as the widow of W. A. Sykes, filed her petition in the chancery court of Monroe county, for dower in the real estate of said W. A. Sykes. She set out the land in which dower is claimed,…
1Opinion of the CourtSimeall, J.
Some of the property out of which Mrs. Sallie A. 0. Sykes claimed dower, was occupied by tenants, under leases made by her husband in his lifetime, and which had not expired when she made her application. The “ fourteenth section plantation ” was occupied by Jas. B. Sykes, one of the decedent’s sons, under an agreement of partnership in planting, which by its terms, was to continue, notwithstanding the death of the father, and which has yet several years to run.
The questions for consideration and decision, are, the rights of the widow to dower in the property under leases, and the plantation,…
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