Ex parte Stanfield
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Holmes county. Hon. J. F. McCool, Ghancellor. Application by Clara Beal Stanfield, a minor, by E. D. Stanfield and others, next of. kin, for removal of disabilities of minority. From a decree in term time vacating a decree of partial removal made in vacation, appellant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Holmes county. Hon. J. F. McCool, Ghancellor. Application by Clara Beal Stanfield, a minor, by E. D. Stanfield and others, next of. kin, for removal of disabilities of minority. From a decree in term time vacating a decree of partial removal made in vacation, appellant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. While there are a number of assignments of error in the record to the action of the court below, the substance of the whole may be stated briefly. We venture to state the proposition thus: “Has the chancellor sitting in term time…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The chancellor made two decrees in vacation on two separate days for the partial removal of the disability of minority of the appellant, Clara Beal Stanfield, in order to enable her to settle certain conflicting claims with her mother and half-sister in the lands inherited by them from the husband and father, and to sell and convey her interest in such lands. At a term of the court subsequent to the making of these vacation decrees, the chancellor, at the instance of the guardian for said minor, heard testimony tending to show that such vacation decrees should not have been entered, and…
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