Creegan v. Hyman
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe chancery court of Sunflower county. IIon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. ¡ Hyman and. another, appellees, were- complainants in the court below; Mrs. Creegan and others, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree in complainants’ favor defendants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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From tbe chancery court of Sunflower county. IIon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. ¡ Hyman and. another, appellees, were- complainants in the court below; Mrs. Creegan and others, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree in complainants’ favor defendants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. After the answer had been filed, sworn to, and the cause set down for hearing, Hyman had no right to ask, and the court no authority to grant permission to destroy the effect of the answer as evidencé. Mr. Fletcher says, in his splendid work on Equity and…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, C. T.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The facts in this case are as follows: Samuel IIyman, one of the appellees, a citizen of New Orleans, La., filed his bill of complaint against appellants some time in the fall of 1905, in the chancery court of Sunflower county, Miss., to cancel certain patents issued by the state of Mississippi to appellants to section 25, township 19, range 3 W., Sunflower county, for what is known as “swamp and overflowed lands,” alleging that he was the real and true owner of said section. The bill was not *489■ sworn to and did not waive an answer under…
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