Wells v. Wells
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Chancery. Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. This was a bill, filed by Mary Wells (the appellee), the widow of Bannister Wells, deceased, against Miles Wells, the administrator, and others, the sisters and heirs-at-law of said Bannister Wells, for the purpose of procuring a perpetual injunction, against suits brought by the administrator to recover certain personal estate, and actions of ejectment, brought by the heirs to recover land, and to…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Chancery. Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. This was a bill, filed by Mary Wells (the appellee), the widow of Bannister Wells, deceased, against Miles Wells, the administrator, and others, the sisters and heirs-at-law of said Bannister Wells, for the purpose of procuring a perpetual injunction, against suits brought by the administrator to recover certain personal estate, and actions of ejectment, brought by the heirs to recover land, and to all which the complainant claims title; a part, by virtue of a deed made to her by said Bannister Wells, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtPIarkis, J.
The appellee filed her bill in the Superior Court of Chancery, enjoining the appellants from prosecuting their actions at law, to • recover a large estate, real and personal, in the possession of appel-lee, in this State.
The bill charges, that the appellee, about the 1st January, 1835, being in possession in her own right, of a large property, real and personal, intermarried with one Bannister Wells, now deceased, who then owned but little if any property. That, on the 22d January, 1849, the said Bannister Wells, to secure to appellee a comfortable support, conveyed to her by deed of that…
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