Joslin v. Caughlin
Mississippi Supreme Court
IN error from tbe Circuit Court of La Fayette county. Hon. P. T. Scruggs, judge. Cited Joslin v. Qaughlin, 27 Miss. R. 852; S. C. 80 Ib. 502; S. C. 26 lb. 140; Hoggins v. Bocraft, 1 Dana, R. 32 ; Greorge v. Bean, 30 Miss. R. 147. Cited 2 Kent, Com. 471; 3 Humph. R. 430; Henderson v. Overton, 2 Terg. 394; Martin v. Brady, Freem. Cb. R. 38; Brown v. Adams, 1 S. & M. 49; 12 Wheat. 183; 6 S. & M. 128; Comyn, Dig. D. 1, L. 12; 1 Saund. R.-274; Mosby y.
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IN error from tbe Circuit Court of La Fayette county. Hon. P. T. Scruggs, judge. Cited Joslin v. Qaughlin, 27 Miss. R. 852; S. C. 80 Ib. 502; S. C. 26 lb. 140; Hoggins v. Bocraft, 1 Dana, R. 32 ; Greorge v. Bean, 30 Miss. R. 147. Cited 2 Kent, Com. 471; 3 Humph. R. 430; Henderson v. Overton, 2 Terg. 394; Martin v. Brady, Freem. Cb. R. 38; Brown v. Adams, 1 S. & M. 49; 12 Wheat. 183; 6 S. & M. 128; Comyn, Dig. D. 1, L. 12; 1 Saund. R.-274; Mosby y. Parlcer, 2 Smedes, R. 371. Cited and commented on the previous decisions of this Court in this case, and reported in 26 Miss. R.; 27 Miss. R.; and…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
*105This action was brought under the “ Pleading Act” of 1850, upon a writing obligatory executed by the defendants in error to the plaintiff in error.
The case has been heretofore several times in this court, and when it last went back for a new trial, the defendants filed an answer stating in substance, that the writing obligatory was given for the purchase-money of a slave sold by the plaintiff, under an order of the Probate Court, which was void for want of notice to the parties interested, the children of the plaintiff’s testator — to whom the slave had been bequeathed in the testator’s will,…
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