Dorrah v. Hill
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Noxubee county. Hon. T. B. Graham, Chancellor. The case is stated in the opinion of the court and in the dissenting opinion of Whitfield, J. The trust deed executed by Hill upon the land in controversy, in favor of Mrs. Jeffries, to secure the $650 note, which we are seeking to collect by foreclosure of the trust deed, was given in renewal and extension of the trust deeds to Mrs. Gas-ton and R. C. Patty, which latter deed had been given by Hill to…
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From the chancery court of Noxubee county. Hon. T. B. Graham, Chancellor. The case is stated in the opinion of the court and in the dissenting opinion of Whitfield, J. The trust deed executed by Hill upon the land in controversy, in favor of Mrs. Jeffries, to secure the $650 note, which we are seeking to collect by foreclosure of the trust deed, was given in renewal and extension of the trust deeds to Mrs. Gas-ton and R. C. Patty, which latter deed had been given by Hill to Patty to secure to him the unpaid purchase money of the land embraced in the deed of trust. To the extent that it was a…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
The appellant, as administrator of the 'estate of Mrs. Prances A. Jeffries, exhibited his bill against the appellee, asking to be subrogated to the security of a certain deed of trust executed by *791the appellee on the eighteenth day of January, 1889, to secure the payment of a debt of $450, and interest thereon, in such deed described, to one it. C. Patty. On final hearing this relief was denied, and the complainant appeals.
The facts, chronologically stated, are as follows: In the year 1885, Patty sold to Hill a small tract of land, at the price of $450, for which he accepted the notes of Hill,…
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