Owen v. Monroe County Alliance
Mississippi Supreme Court
TTkom the chancery court of Monroe county. Hon. BaxteR McPablano, Chancellor. Owen and others, appellants, were the complainants in the court below, the Monroe County Alliance and others were defendants there. The case was before the supreme court heretofore — Monroe County Alliance v. Owen, 25 So.
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TTkom the chancery court of Monroe county. Hon. BaxteR McPablano, Chancellor. Owen and others, appellants, were the complainants in the court below, the Monroe County Alliance and others were defendants there. The case was before the supreme court heretofore — Monroe County Alliance v. Owen, 25 So. Rep., 876. The complainants, claiming to be the owners in fee of the lauds in controversy, sought by their bill to establish a lost and unrecorded warranty deed therefor executed to them in 1889 by Timberlake, a defendant, to cancel a quitclaim deed to the same land subsequently executed by…
1Opinion of the CourtWiiiteield, J.
The bill filed by appellants had three objects. First, to restore the original deed from Timberlake, which had not been recorded, and had been destroyed; second, to cancel the quitclaim deed from Timberlake to the same grantees, for the same property, subsequently made; and, third, to enjoin the prosecution, at law, of the unlawful entry and detainer suit instituted by appellees, and convene all the parties in the chancery court for a final settlement there of all their respective rights. The *506chancellor, in the first decree, restored the original deed, canceled the quitclaim deed, and held…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McCorkle v. YarrellMississippi Supreme Court · 1878
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