Hebron v. Kelly
Mississippi Supreme Court
Kiiom the chancery court of Adams county. IÍON. Claude PiNtard, Chancellor. Mary Ella Hebron and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below; George 13. Kelly and others, appellees, were defendants there. Mary E. Leggett died in 1879, leaving a will, by which she gave a $3,000 legacy to G. Malin Davis, in payment of a debt due said Davis by the husband of the testatrix.
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Kiiom the chancery court of Adams county. IÍON. Claude PiNtard, Chancellor. Mary Ella Hebron and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below; George 13. Kelly and others, appellees, were defendants there. Mary E. Leggett died in 1879, leaving a will, by which she gave a $3,000 legacy to G. Malin Davis, in payment of a debt due said Davis by the husband of the testatrix. I. H. Mc-Conen, a brother of the testatrix, was appointed executor of the will, by the terms- of which he was directed to work Greenfield plantation, in Adams county, and out of the rents pay a mortgage given by…
1Opinion of the Court
Woods, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
An examination of all the evidence in this case satisfies us that the decree of the learned court below, declaring that the title to Greenfield plantation is vested in George D. Kelly, as trustee for complainants, is correct, and should not be disturbed by us on this appeal.
We must decline, also, to reverse the decree because of the finding of the court that $5,767.55 is the sum due from complainants on an accounting to said George D. Kelly. We should be better satisfied as to this sum if the taking and stating of the account had been referred…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McLemore v. Chicago, St. Louis, & New Orleans RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1880
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