Shotwell v. Lawson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Chancery Court of Columbus. Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice chancellor. The appellees, M. E. H. Lawson, and her husband, Andrew Lawson, filed their bill in the Nice Chancery Court, against Robert Shotwell, James H. Turner, and Eliza W. Moore, alleging in substance, as stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the District Chancery Court of Columbus. Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice chancellor. The appellees, M. E. H. Lawson, and her husband, Andrew Lawson, filed their bill in the Nice Chancery Court, against Robert Shotwell, James H. Turner, and Eliza W. Moore, alleging in substance, as stated in the opinion of the court. To this bill the defendants appeared and demurred, and assigned for cause of demurrer,— 1. Want of equity in the face of the bill. 2. That the complainants’ remedy was at law. 3. That the bill was multifarious, and 4. If not multifarious, that others were necessary parties.…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Fishes,,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellees, on the 19th of March, 1858, filed their bill in the Yice Chancery Court at Columbus, alleging that the complainant, Mrs. Lawson, on the 9th of May, 1842, filed her bill in said court, for the purpose of vacating the title which one Jefferson Graybill had acquired to a certain lot of ground, situate in the town of Columbus: that her bill having been dismissed,' she prosecuted her writ of error to this court, and that the decree of the court below , was reversed, Graybill’s title vacated, and a commissioner appointed to…
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