Moody v. Doe ex dem. Harper
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the circuit court of Hinds county; Hon. P. W. Tompkins, judge. This was an action of ejectment instituted in the circuit court of Hinds county, on the 21st of November, 1848, by William C. Harper, to recover lots numbered 1, 2, 7, and 8, in fractional square number two north, in the city of Jackson, and county aforesaid.
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On appeal from the circuit court of Hinds county; Hon. P. W. Tompkins, judge. This was an action of ejectment instituted in the circuit court of Hinds county, on the 21st of November, 1848, by William C. Harper, to recover lots numbered 1, 2, 7, and 8, in fractional square number two north, in the city of Jackson, and county aforesaid. John P. Jones, tenant in possession, was served with process, and under the common consent rule, E. Moody, landlord of Jones, was admitted and made defendant, and filed for plea the general issue. The cause came on for trial at the September term, 1850, of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fisher
This was an action of ejectment, brought in the circuit court of Hinds county by the defendant in error, to recover certain lots in the city of Jackson, in the possession of Edwin Moody, the plaintiff in error.
The plaintiff, on the trial in the court below, introduced as his evidence, certain patents issued by the proper officer of the State to John Shields, on the 15th of June, 1838, for the lots in controversy, and then a deed executed by the sheriff of Hinds county to the plaintiff’s lessor, on the 20th of May, 1844, accompanied by a transcript of a judgment and execution thereon, rendered…
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