Gross v. Jones
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the .chancery court of Madison county. Hon. Robert B. Mayes, Chancellor. Jones, the appellee and cross-appellant, was complainant in the court below; Gross and others, the appellants and crossappellees, were defendants there. From a decree largely favorable to complainant tbe defendants appealed to tbe supreme court and complainant prosecuted a cross-appeal. The facts are fully stated in tbe opinion of the court.
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From the .chancery court of Madison county. Hon. Robert B. Mayes, Chancellor. Jones, the appellee and cross-appellant, was complainant in the court below; Gross and others, the appellants and crossappellees, were defendants there. From a decree largely favorable to complainant tbe defendants appealed to tbe supreme court and complainant prosecuted a cross-appeal. The facts are fully stated in tbe opinion of the court. Counsel cited the following authorities: 1 Wigmore on Evidence, sec. 228; Gibbons v. Dunn, 46 Mich., 146; Cropp v. Cropp, 88 Va., 753; State v. Scott, 36 L. R. A., 721; 3…
1Opinion of the Court
Mayes, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
On account of tbe voluminous record in this case we find it impossible to set out in this opinion 'the many contentions of counsel or give a detailed statement of tbe pleadings or tbe *46facts. We shall, therefore, only discuss those facts which we deem controlling in the decision of the case.
This bill was filed in the chancery court of Madison county by Frank Jones against Isidor Gross. The object and purpose of the bill is to obtain an accounting by Frank Jones with Isidore Gross and the cancellation of a deed in trust held by Gross on a quarter…
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