City of Vicksburg v. Marshall
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Warren County. Hon. Upton M. Y.oung, Chancellor, did not preside in this case, but Counsellor Thomas Catchings acted as Chancellor, pro Jiao vice. Wm. M. Pinekard purchased from Wm, Vick seventy-six acres of land bounded by a line beginning at a post on the bank of the Mississippi River, and intersected by the Warren-ton Road which began at the southern end of Washington Street in the city of Vicksburg.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Warren County. Hon. Upton M. Y.oung, Chancellor, did not preside in this case, but Counsellor Thomas Catchings acted as Chancellor, pro Jiao vice. Wm. M. Pinekard purchased from Wm, Vick seventy-six acres of land bounded by a line beginning at a post on the bank of the Mississippi River, and intersected by the Warren-ton Road which began at the southern end of Washington Street in the city of Vicksburg. Having the tract laid off into streets, squares and lots, he called it “ Pinckardia,” and put the lots upon the market. On May 11, 1836, he conveyed square 29…
1Opinion of the Court
Cooper J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The complainant and those under whom he claims title purchased the property occupied by him, as lots laid off, surveyed and sold as a part of Pinckardia, and cannot controvert the fact of dedication by Pinckard of the streets described in the plat. The fact that the plat was not formally enrolled by him until after the sale of the lots now owned by the appellee *571does not at all affect the question of dedication, for it is immaterial when the dedication was formally made, since it is clear that the deed from Pinckard to Rapplege did not convey the…
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