Legal Opinion

Millsaps v. Pfeiffer

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1870PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Error to the chancery court of Lincoln county. Peyton, J. Plaintiff in error made the following assignment of error: The court below erred in sustaining the demurrer to the cross-bill filed with the answer.

1Opinion of the Court

Peyton, C. J.:

It appears from the record in this case, that Mary F. Mill-saps and R. W. Millsaps, her husband, instituted suit in the chancery court of Lawrence county, to restrain the sale of certain real estate in the town of Brookhaven, claimed by the said Mary F. Millsaps as her separate estate.

The Ipill alleges that in the month of March, 1863, the said Mary F., then the wife of S. W.' Younkin, purchased of Thos. F. Rawls a certain parcel of land in the town of Brookhaven, in the county of Lawrence, at the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, and took a deed of conveyance of the same from the…

2Cited by6 opinions

  1. Scottish-American Mortgage Co. v. BunckleyMississippi Supreme Court · 1906
  2. Diamond v. DiamondMississippi Supreme Court · 1981
  3. Sweeny v. WilliamsSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1883
  4. Kendallville Refrigerator Co. v. DavisAppellate Court of Illinois · 1891
  5. Enochs v. State ex rel. RobersonMississippi Supreme Court · 1922

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