Eldridge v. McMackin
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Lawrence county. Hon. John E. McNair, judge. The verdict and judgment in the court below were for the defendant in the action of ejectment. Cited How. & Hutch. Dig. p. 407, § 98; 4 Conn. R. 495; 6 lb. 373; 7 Mass. 488; 3 Stew. & Port. 355. Cited Lee v. Qardner, 26 Miss. R. 543; Cfelstrop v. Moore, lb. 210.
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
This was an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiff in error to recover possession of certain lots of land from the defendant.
The plaintiff claimed title as heir at law of A. S. Eldridge, who died seised and possessed of the premises in the year 1838; and the defendant claimed title in virtue of a decree of the Court of Probates of Lawrence county, in which the land lies, ordering the lots to be sold, and a sale made under that decree.
The material facts shown by the bill of exceptions, in relation to the proceedings and decree of the Court of Probates, and the sale made thereupon, are…
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