Beauchamp v. McLauchlin

Pat N. McLauchlin and his wife, Wyvette McLauchlin, appellees, filed their bill in the Chancery Court against H. B. Beauchamp, C. E. Morgan, A. H. Cauthen and Nelson Cauthen, the appellants herein, and the State of Mississippi, seeking to cancel a patent issued by the State to A. H. Cauthen to 40 acres of land and also a patent issued to Nelson Cauthen to 160 acres of land, and to annul and cancel a deed from the Cauthens conveying both tracts of land to appellants Beauchamp and Morgan, and to obtain a decree of the court adjudicating that Pat N. McLauchlin had performed such acts as were…