Leflore County v. Allen
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. D. B. Barnett, Special Chancellor. .. Leflore county, appellant, was complainant in the court below, Allen and others, appellees, were defendants there. Every witness who testified upon the point undoubtedly sustained the proposition that Mrs. Allen’s violent objection was to the first deed presented for her signature. That deed embraced the property in Greewood, as well as the wild land outside of the city.
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From the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. D. B. Barnett, Special Chancellor. .. Leflore county, appellant, was complainant in the court below, Allen and others, appellees, were defendants there. Every witness who testified upon the point undoubtedly sustained the proposition that Mrs. Allen’s violent objection was to the first deed presented for her signature. That deed embraced the property in Greewood, as well as the wild land outside of the city. The first deed, which she refused to make, is what gave her such grave concern, and against executing-which she protested. That was the…
1Opinion of the CourtOalhoon, J.
We decline to disturb the conclusion reached in this cause, on its former appearance in this court in Allen v. Leflore County, 78 Miss., 671 (29 South., 161), as to the duress of Mrs. Allen, and this regardless of whether the question of duress is or is not res adjudicata. Although, even under the threat of putting her husband in the penitentiary, putting stripes upon him, and disgracing her and her children, she refused to sign *312the first deed, which carried everything she had,' and would have reduced her and her large family to destitution, still she, none the less, acted under duress in…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Anding v. DavisMississippi Supreme Court · 1860
- Root v. McFerrinMississippi Supreme Court · 1859
- Cooper v. CooperMississippi Supreme Court · 1884
- Allen v. Leflore CountyMississippi Supreme Court · 1900
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