Frederic v. Merchants & Marine Bank

This is a suit in chancery brought by the appellants, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Frederic, against the appellee, Merchants and Marine Bank of Pascagoula, Mississippi, to compel the actual and manual delivery of a deed of conveyance executed by the defendant Bank in favor of the complainant, Mrs. W. E. Frederic, on May 22, 1942, and placed in the vault of the bank after its execution and the purchase price paid, for a certain lot which was then vacant and located on the beach front some distance east of the corporate limits of the City of Pascagoula; or that in the event the said original deed could…