State Highway Department v. Duckworth

Appellees, E. J. Duckworth and his wife, filed an original bill in the chancery court of Covington county for the reformation of a deed executed by them to the State Highway Commission, or Department, conveying a right of way through certain lands owned by them between Mt. Olive and Collins, Mississippi, and also for the specific performance of an alleged agreement between them and agents of the State Highway Department for the construction of approaches on a plantation road crossing the state highway.

The chancery court sustained a demurrer to said bill, holding that neither stated a case for…