Bowles v. Wood
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Mrs. Wood, the appellee, was complainant in the court below, and Bowles and others, the appellants, were defendants there. From a decree ordering a partition of lands the defendant, Bowles, appealed, and, because a solicitor’s fee was charged against the share of Mrs. Phelan, one of the defendants, as well as against the shares of the other parties in interest, she prosecuted a cross-appeal.
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From tbe chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Mrs. Wood, the appellee, was complainant in the court below, and Bowles and others, the appellants, were defendants there. From a decree ordering a partition of lands the defendant, Bowles, appealed, and, because a solicitor’s fee was charged against the share of Mrs. Phelan, one of the defendants, as well as against the shares of the other parties in interest, she prosecuted a cross-appeal. The suit was for partition of lands and for an accounting, for rents. The opinion of the court states the facts. It is incompetent…
1Opinion of the Court
Harris, Special Judge,*
delivered the opinion of the court.
This litigation was begun in September, 1897, and this is *746its fourth appearance before this court. The esssential facts of the case, so far as they are necessary to be stated for a proper understanding of this opinion, are as follows: R. S. Bowles died intestate in 1878, owning two adjoining tracts of land in Leflore county; one tract containing eighty acres, and the other tract three hundred and twenty .acres. He left surviving him as his heirs at law his widow, Mary Bowles, and five children, F. N. Bowles, P. B. Bowles, Pink Wood,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Walker v. WilliamsMississippi Supreme Court · 1904
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