Ezelle v. Parker
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Clark • county. Hon. Wml. Hancock, chancellor. 1. That the separate property of a married woman may be disposed of by her as feme sole. Clancy’s H. &W. 321, 294; Heathly v. Thomas, 15 Yesy. 595 ; 1 Story’s Eq. Jr. §§ 243, 1,378, 1,379 ; Jaques v. The M. E. Ohwreh, 17 Johns. 578 ; 4 Barb. 413; 3 Ird. 239; 7 ib. 113, 120; 28 Ala. 642; Garret v. Eabney, 27 Miss. R. 346; Blade v. Gross, 36 ib. 558; Levy y.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Clark • county. Hon. Wml. Hancock, chancellor. 1. That the separate property of a married woman may be disposed of by her as feme sole. Clancy’s H. &W. 321, 294; Heathly v. Thomas, 15 Yesy. 595 ; 1 Story’s Eq. Jr. §§ 243, 1,378, 1,379 ; Jaques v. The M. E. Ohwreh, 17 Johns. 578 ; 4 Barb. 413; 3 Ird. 239; 7 ib. 113, 120; 28 Ala. 642; Garret v. Eabney, 27 Miss. R. 346; Blade v. Gross, 36 ib. 558; Levy y. Barden, 38 ib. 64. 2. That the act of 1839, H. & H. 332, § 22, creates a separate property in the wife, with a limitation on the estate in favor of the husband…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
The defendants in error filed this bill to remove clouds and doubts from their title to certain lands in dispute; also, for an account for the use and occupation of the land by plaintiff in error, and for general relief. The bill alleges that Mary J. Parker, being the wife of the said Elijah Parker, and the owner in fee of the land in controversy, in the absence of her husband in the army, about the 3d day of January, 1865, contracted to sell the same to plaintiff in error by title bond, for Confederate money, of little value, and afterwards by the persuasion of plaintiff in error executed…
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