Gaskins v. Blake
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the circuit court of Warren county; Hon. R. Barnett, judge. This was an action of ejectment, commenced in the circuit court of Warren county, on the 31st of August, 1850, by James W. and Elizabeth Gaskins, minor heirs of James W..Gaskins, deceased, by their next friend, to recover of Benson Blake four hundred and thirteen acres and a fraction of land, lying in Warren county.
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On appeal from the circuit court of Warren county; Hon. R. Barnett, judge. This was an action of ejectment, commenced in the circuit court of Warren county, on the 31st of August, 1850, by James W. and Elizabeth Gaskins, minor heirs of James W..Gaskins, deceased, by their next friend, to recover of Benson Blake four hundred and thirteen acres and a fraction of land, lying in Warren county. On the trial, it was proven that James W. Gaskins died in 1841, seized and possessed of the land in controversy, and that the plaintiffs in error were his only children and heirs at law. That defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fisher
This was an action brought under the pleading act of 1850, *677in the circuit court of Warren county, to recover a tract of land in the possession of the defendant.
Though many questions have been discussed with ability by the counsel of the respective parties, we deem it unnecessary to decide them, as the merits of the case can be as fully decided upon the third instruction asked by the counsel of the plaintiff, and refused by the court. This instruction will be noticed at the proper time.
After the testimony in chief had closed on the part of the plaintiffs, the defendant introduced as his only…
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