Ruffin v. Crowell

FOSTER, Justice.

This suit comes here in two aspects. Appellants in the main appeal were complainants added by amendment to the original bill in the trial court. The appeal by them is from a decree holding that they are not entitled to relief.

The original bill was filed December 23, 1942 by Jeff Crowell and his wife, Vaddie, and so far as material here the facts’developed in the case are substantially as follows. Marion Crowell, Sr., a Negro resident of 'Choctaw County, died in 1933 leaving nine children or their descendants and 900 acres of land, upon which he had given a mortgage to one John…