Legal Opinion
Hayes v. Ferguson
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided April 15, 1885PublishedCited by 4 opinions
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Chancery Court at Memphis. W. W. McDowell, Ch.
1Opinion of the Court
WilsON, Sp. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
On January 2, 1878, A. J. Hayes, and his wile, complainant E. M. Hayes, leased for five years to D. L. Ferguson and H. C. Hampson certain lands in Mississippi county, Arkansas, at a specified annual .rental, payable on or before the 15th day of Novena-*3ber, each year, during the continuance of the lease. The leased lands belonged equally as tenants-in-common to Mrs. Hayes and her three children, two of the latter being minors at the date of the lease.
The lands conveyed contained about a thousand acres, embracing a tract known as the Morgan…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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