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2 Miss. Dec. 367

Stroud v. Weems

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 16, 1883

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1883-04-16

Ejectment by appellee against appellants to recover possession of certain land described in his declaration. Erom verdict and judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. Held: that an absolute power of disposal was given to the widow. Atty. Geni. v. Hall, Fitz. 114; Jackson v. Bull, 19 Johns. 20; Pamsell v. Pamsell, 21 Miss. 280.

Relies on Stokes v. Payne, Kennedy & Co.

Reversed and remanded, · Decided 1883-04-16

¶1Opinion

Cooper, J.:

¶2So far as is shown by the record, no title to the land sued for has ever vested in the appellee, even if it be admitted that Mrs. Stroud, under the will of her husband, bad the power to mortgage the lands for the support of herself and her children. the claim of title shown, is first, the will of Stroud; second^a deed of trust made by Mrs. Stroud on the 12th day of January, 187 6, to one W. H. M. Durham, trustee, to secure a debt to Weems & Co.; third, a conveyance made by one R. H. Montgomery, who professed to convey as substituted trustee in a certain other deed of trust made by Mrs. Stroud on the 18th day of April, 1879, to one E. E. Doggett, trustee, to secure another debt due to Weems & Co., which deed of trust was not introduced in evidence.

¶3Tbe plaintiffs attempts to prove title by showing title in Durham and a conveyance from another. Tbe real question in tbe case is however, probably settled by the, case of Stokes v. Payne, Kennedy & Co., 58 Miss. 614.

¶4The judgment is reversed and tbe cause remanded.

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