Wilson v. Kohlheim
Mississippi Supreme Court
Ebbob to the circuit court of Lee county. LovebiNG, J. The facts of this case, as affecting the main question discussed and decided by the court, are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The third instruction given for the plaintiff below, and which this court pronounced inapplicable to the facts, and, therefore improper, need not be given" here.
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Ebbob to the circuit court of Lee county. LovebiNG, J. The facts of this case, as affecting the main question discussed and decided by the court, are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The third instruction given for the plaintiff below, and which this court pronounced inapplicable to the facts, and, therefore improper, need not be given" here. The ninth instruction for plaintiff below, pronounced erroneous here, is in words and figures, as follows, viz. : “ By a statute of this state, Hutch. Code, p. 609-10, § 25, in force at the time of the purchase of the land in controversy by John…
1Opinion of the Court
Peyton, C. J.:
It appears from the record in this case, that Charles Anderson, Sr., a citizen of Pontotoc county, was seized and possessed of an estate real and personal, of the value of more than $200,000, and being about seventy years of age and desirous of settling the greater portion of said estate upon h'is children in his life-time, to avoid an administration thereof, after his death, in the probate court, he conveyed by deeds of gift, which were duly acknowledged and recorded, all his said estate to his children, except property to the value of about $30,000, which he reserved for…
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