Mortimer v. Hannah
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the chancery court of Sunflower county. Hon. Carey O. Moody,' Chancellor. Hannah, appellee, was complainant, and Mortimer and others, appellants, were defendants in the court below. Erom a decree overruling defendants’ demurrer to complainant’s bill, the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Erom the chancery court of Sunflower county. Hon. Carey O. Moody,' Chancellor. Hannah, appellee, was complainant, and Mortimer and others, appellants, were defendants in the court below. Erom a decree overruling defendants’ demurrer to complainant’s bill, the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The main purpose of the contract was to get the four hundred acres cleared, the houses built, and the land deadened within the .period of eight years, and the provision that the land should be cleared at the rate of fifty acres per annum is not…
1Opinion of the CourtTruly, J.
Appellee, on the 9th of Eebruary, 1903, filed his bill of com*649plaint against appellants seeking to rescind and have canceled a certain contract of lease and sale for causes set out in his bill. The facts are these: On the 9th of February, 1901, A. J. Hannah, being the owner of a tract of wild land containing five hundred acres, executed a contract of lease and sale to Sibley & Mortimer. In this contrae! it was provided that the term was to expire the 1st of January, 1909, at which time Hannah was to deed an undivided half interest in the property, conditioned that his lessees should carry out…
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