Lake v. Perry
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom tlie chancery court of Grenada county. Hon. Isaac T. Blount, Chancellor. Lake, appellant, was complainant in the court below; Perry, appellee, was defendant there. Prom a final decree in defendant’s favor the complainant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court fully states the facts. The proceedings of June, 1899, in Ex parte Alvin Lake, No. 1137, upon which appellee relies in this case, are absolutely void and should have been excluded.
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Prom tlie chancery court of Grenada county. Hon. Isaac T. Blount, Chancellor. Lake, appellant, was complainant in the court below; Perry, appellee, was defendant there. Prom a final decree in defendant’s favor the complainant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court fully states the facts. The proceedings of June, 1899, in Ex parte Alvin Lake, No. 1137, upon which appellee relies in this case, are absolutely void and should have been excluded. In the first place, the chancellor in vacation had no authority to entertain these proceedings, and the decree signed by him is…
1Opinion of the CourtWi-iiteield, C. J.
In 1898 George Golliday,-a resident of Grenada county, died intestate, seized and possessed of the property in controversy, and leaving as his heirs certain brothers and sisters, one of whom was the appellant, Alvin Lake, a minor. Certain transactions took place, as a result of which this property was sold to the appellee for $1,650. This sale was effected without any administration; Samuel Golliday, a brother of the deceased, and these heirs, effecting the sale. The deed was signed by appellant in Memphis, where he had been living. The appel*562lant Was at this time a minor, being nineteen years…
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